Nigeria Customs seizes vehicles, contraband valued at N1 trillion
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone B, Kaduna, announced on Friday that it had intercepted vehicles and other contrabands worth N1 trillion between May and July.
In a statement, the command’s Public Relations Officer, Isah Sulieman, reported that the unit made a total of 179 seizures during this period.
Musa Jalo, the Customs Area Controller in charge of the unit, expressed his satisfaction and said, “I am particularly happy to inform you that the unit recorded a total of 179 seizures worth N1tn between May and July. These assortments of items were arrested at different locations within the zone, mainly through intelligence-driven operations, as well as the vigilance and diligence of our officers and men.”
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The seized contrabands included illicit substances such as cannabis sativa, intercepted jointly with the joint border patrol team in Kebbi.
Jalo provided a breakdown of the seized items, which included vehicles, smuggled foreign parboiled rice, second-hand clothing, foreign soaps, vegetable oil, and pasta. The specifics of the seizures were as follows:
“21 units of used vehicles, 11 units of vehicles ( as means of conveyance), 2234 bags of foreign parboiled rice of 50Kg each, 48 bags of foreign parboiled rice of 25Kg each, 226 jerrycans of foreign refined vegetable oil of 25 litres each, 2,780 cartons of foreign spaghetti, macaroni, and couscous, 278 bales of foreign second-hand clothing, 15 sacks of foreign second-hand shoes, 140 cartons of foreign tin tomato paste, foreign pomade, foreign milky creamer, foreign green tea, foreign milk, 149 cartons of foreign fruit juice, foreign soap, foreign matches, 140 jerrycans of automotive gas oil of 25 litres each, 1000 jerrycans of premium motor spirit of 25 litres each.”
The Customs Zone B boss warned perpetrators to desist from illegal activities and engage in legitimate trade, as the unit had no plans to negotiate the extant laws.
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