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Published 20 May 2021
Men of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun 1 Area Command, have seized an articulated vehicle loaded with 600 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice and belonging to Dangote Cement Company.
The NCS personnel also arrested three persons, including the truck driver, as they were conveying the consignment to the eastern part of the country.
The Customs Area Controller, Peter Kolo, disclosed this on Wednesday at the monthly press briefing on the activities of the command in Idiroko.
Kolo said the truck was intercepted in the Ijoun border area of Ogun State.
He added that investigation was ongoing to unmask the persons behind the massive smuggling activity.
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