The Nigerian Customs Service has reported that their operatives have captured nine containers carrying arms, ammunition , fairly used clothes and drugs worth over N13.9 billion.
General Adewale Adeniyi , who is the Controller- General report this to journalists when he was addressing them in One Port, Rivers State
He said the container came from Turkey and because of the number of importation cases they’ve been having. The container became a thing of interest to the custom.
The CG talking in details ssaid, “We have followed its sail across continents and we’ve benefitted immensely from credible information through our collaboration with intelligence communities both at local, national and international levels,”
According to the CG, the importer tried to boy-cut the procedure with the Nigerian Custom service.
“On Friday 21st of June 2024, the auspicious container was subjected to a thorough physical examination. Inside the container were 844 units of assorted riffles and 12,500 pieces of life ammunition,” which Adeniyi said were “concealed with various items like doors, furniture fittings and leather bags.”
Also, the suspects were arrested and the containers were seized and the suspects were given a detention warrant from the court of justice.
Adeniyi spoke concerning the other containers , he said, “On Saturday, our officers intercepted eight pieces of 40-foot containers transiting from a bonded terminal
“On examination, six of the containers were laden with 1.5 million bottles of cough syrup of codeine in 100ml sizes, 3.5m tablets of tramadol. The duty-paid value of the containers is N9.6bn. the total duty paid value of the nine containers is N13.9bn,” the customs boss concluded.
The joint Border Patrol Team Sector 2 of the NCS on 28, 2024 said the also captured 1,410 litres of fuel worth 30.4million.
This was disclosed by the team’s Coordinator, Mohammad Shuaibu, while he addressing journalists at the Customs Training College in Ikeja, Lagos State.
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