He said 15 persons were also arrested for their alleged involvement in the different seizures. According to the breakdown, the seized items include 7,667 bags of foreign parboiled rice ( 50kg each), three bags of sugar (50kg each), 1, 080, 875 litres of premium motor spirit, 127 units of smuggled vehicles, 1,514 cartons of frozen poultry products, 646 hard drugs packets, 166 parcels of cannabis Sativa and 31, 868 general merchandise goods.
The Seme Customs boss further disclosed that since the pronouncement of the federal government policy on partial border closure, the Command major revenue sources have not been active; hence the auction sales of seized petrol and other perishable items.
“The Command remitted the sum of N32,196,232.55 into the federation account as revenue for the fiscal of 2020.”
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The Customs Area Controller of Oyo/Osun Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr. Adamu Abdulkadir, has said the command generated N4,896 billion in January 2021.
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The Customs Area Controller of Oyo/Osun Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr. Adamu Abdulkadir, has said the command generated N4,896 billion in January 2021.
This is just as he said the command has fashioned out new strategy code-named, “Operation Fish Out,” to nip in the bud, the nefarious activities of smugglers in the area.
Abdulkadir, who made the disclosure while addressing journalists in Ibadan, warned that the command would track, apprehend and prosecute in accordance with section 77 of the Customs and Excise Management Act (CEMA), those who are aiding smugglers by revealing the actions of its men to them.
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NSC), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘A’ Ikeja, Lagos has alleged that hoodlums suspected to be smugglers attacked and wounded three of its officers.
The command in a statement said the officers, who were on anti-smuggling patrol on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, were attacked and wounded at dawn.
The Public Relations Officer, Zone A, Theophilus Duniya, in the statement said three customs officer and a military officer attached to the patrol team sustained various degrees of bullet wounds.
He stated that the officers had intercepted six vehicles laden with smuggled rice before the hoodlums attacked them.