The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Monday, said it intercepted contraband worth N1.025billion in one month.
The contraband intercepted are, 12 trucks of smuggled foreign parboiled rice; 1,236 kegs of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS); 2 container load of woods; 4 units of tokunbo vehicles; vegetable oil and 54 bales of second hand clothing.
Speaking to Journalists, the acting Customs Area Controller, Deputy Compt. Hussein Ejibunu, also disclosed that the unit impounded a truck load of Indian Hemp around the Lekki area of Lagos brought in by boat from Ghana.
He said, “Detentions and seizures recorded within the period under review amounted to 79 seizures, with a total Duty Paid Value, DPV of N1.025billion. these seizures are products of surveillance, intelligence gathering and regular patrols.
“They were intercepted at different times and locations within border corridors of the South-Western Zone and notable among the seizures are: 6,861 X 50 kg bags of foreign parboiled rice (equivalent to 12 trailer loads);
1,236 jerry cans; 25 litres (30,900 litres) of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS; 9,857 parcels (5,338 kg) of cannabis sativa and 2 X 20 containers of unprocessed wood.”
Others are four units of used vehicles (Tokunbo), 40 X 5 jerry cans of vegetable oil and 54 bales of second hand clothing, four suspects were arrested in connection with some of the intercepted goods,” he noted.
Ejibunu, however, disclosed that the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, Sentence some smugglers to prison for assaulting officers on duty.
