The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, in its ongoing anti-smuggling operation, has seized, Benin Republic-bound contraband goods and petroleum products, valued at over one point eight four billion Naira.
NCS says, the operation, carried out between June Third and July Eighteen, across the southwestern states, led to the interception of many categories of prohibited imports and the disruption of an illegal fuel export syndicate, with nine suspects arrested.
Comptroller-General of Customs, Mr. Bashir Adeniyi, announced the feats during a briefing at the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone A headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos.
Mr. Adeniyi stated that, the FOU carried out one hundred and two operations during the six-week period, targeting notorious smuggling routes and flashpoints in Lagos, Ogun, and other areas.
Among the items seized were three thousand, five hundred bags of fifty kilograms foreign parboiled rice, three hundred and four kilograms of cannabis sativa and seven thousand, nine hundred litres of Petrol.
Also intercepted by the FOU were fifty-four bags and twenty bales of used clothing, Forty-one sacks of used footwear, and fourteen units of “Tokunbo” vehicles.
Writing by Iyeh Enema