Customs Records N7.3billion Seizures, 697 Arrests over Border Closure
By Francis Ugwoke
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Tuesday announced seizures which duty paid value were put at N7.4bn since the closure of the nation’s borders.
The Service also said it arrested 697 illegal immigrants since the border closure started.
In a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, NCS, Mr Joseph Attah, the Comptroller General, Rtd. Col. Hammed Ali said the closure of the borders saved the country huge resources and improved on security.
Ali said that importation of drugs and influx of small arms and other weapons which promoted criminality has reduced.
He also said that the nation’s agric sector also benefitted from the closure as a result of check in smuggling of smuggled food items.
Among the seizures include 86,602-50kg bags of parboiled foreign rice; 695 bags of NPK fertiliser; 1,172 vehicles; 2,997 drums filled with Premium Motor Spirit; 16,771 empty 200 litre drums of PMS; 90 engine boats.
Others were 68 drums of groundnut oil; 26 trucks (33,000 litres) of PMS; 14,604 jerricans of PMS; 656 motorcycles; 15,089 jerricans of PMS, vegetable oil.
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