The Customs Area Controller, FOU, Zone A, Usman Bello Yahaya, while showcasing the seized product to journalists at the Customs Terminal in Ikorodu, described the suspects as economic saboteurs and enemies of the nation.
Mr Yahaya noted that the suspects, along with others at large, had perfected plans to move the petrol into Benin Republic where they would have sold same at a higher price.
Although the identities of the suspects were not given owing to the new Lagos State Government law banning the parading of suspects in the state, but the controller said effort was on to arrest other fleeing members of the syndicate.
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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.