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  • Customs seizes smuggled items worth N10.6b

    The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized smuggled items with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N10.67 billion in the first quarter of this year.

    The Controller of the unit, Comptroller Aliyu Mohammed, in an interview yesterday with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, said the items were seized within 90 days.

    He said they included 25 assorted vehicles with a DPV of N111.06 million.

    “The command intercepted 16,117 bags of 50kg parboiled rice, 447 cartons of frozen poultry products, 594 vehicles, 42,412 kg of seven pallets of raw hide and skin as well as 2,471 cartons of alcoholic wine.

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    “The intercepted goods also include 710 cartons of Tramadol capsules, 510 cartons of various medications, including Chaka pain, Codeine and Rally Extra.

    “Others are 111 bags of used clothing, three sacks of footwear, 210 kegs of 25 litres of vegetable oil and 106 cartons of 5 litres vegetable oil,” he said.

    The controller said 16 suspects were arrested in connection with the total of 254 seizures recorded between January and March.

    He advised would-be car buyers to verify the authenticity of the import and clearance documents with the appropriate Customs Area Controllers (CACs) at ports, saying buyers should avoid buying smuggled vehicles.

    Mohammed, however, hailed the efforts of the Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali and his management team for providing the unit with necessary incentives and logistics.

    He urged the public to join the service in the fight against smuggling, considering its economic consequences to the nation and the society at large.

     

  • Nigeria Customs seizes contraband worth N93m

    Nigeria Customs seizes contraband worth N93m

    The Compliance Team of the Nigeria Customs Service ( NCS ) said it has seized contraband with Duty Paid Value ( DPV ) of N93.7 million in the course of its operations.

    The Coordinator of the Compliance Team, Ahmed Azarema, made this known while displaying the seized contraband to news men in Owerri on Tuesday at the Imo/Abia Command of the service.

    Azarema said the compliance team, attached to the office of the Comptroller-General of Customs, confiscated 1,028bags of 20 kg foreign rice with a DPV of N8.22 million concealed with motor spare parts.

    He said 1,258 bags of 50kg of foreign rice with a DPV of N74.8 million and 111 bales of second hand clothing with a DPV of N10.65 million was also seized by the team.

    Read also: Customs destroys smuggled goods

    He said all the items were seized along Aba/Umuahia/Port Harcourt axis adding that two suspects were arrested in connection with the seized goods.

    Azarema observed that because of the Yuletide season, smugglers are more desperate and always want to skim their way through but would always fail because of the dedication and ingenuity of the customs personnel.

    He, therefore, charged Nigerians against ferrying contraband in and across the country, but to engage in legitimate businesses to avoid their goods being confiscated.

    According to the compliance team coordinator, locally produced rice is more nutritious, better and cheaper than foreign rice which are preserved with chemicals.

    He said that patronising locally made goods would help boost the country’s foreign exchange and provide jobs to the teeming unemployed youths in the country.

    Azarema also urged Nigerians to desist from buying foreign rice to encourage the local producers.

    NAN

  • Customs seizes N36m goods

    The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C”, has said it has seized 274 bales of second hand clothing and 24 bales of sample lace materials with Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N36, 243,000.00.

    Giving a breakdown of the seizures, its Area Comptroller, Victor Dimka, said 253 bales of the second hand clothing were concealed in 45 cartons of noodles in a trailer with registration number BDG 809 XD.

    The vehicle, he said, was impounded on the Ituku–Ozzala Enugu/Aba Road.

    Dimka said the DPV of the 253 bales is N26.932 million.

    The area comptroller also said that 24 bales of lace materials and six jumbo bales of second hand clothing were hidden in a J5 bus with number plate XA 606 KAF on Nsukka Road, with the DPV of N5,806, 000.00.

    Dimka spoke to reporters on the premises of the Enugu/Anambra/Ebonyi Area Command of the NCS where he displayed the seized goods.

    He said the FOU Zone ‘C’, Owerri also seized 15 jumbo bales of second hand clothing packed in a Toyota Hiace bus marked AKL 595 XA on the Onitsha–Adani Nsukka Road with a DPV of N2, 530, 000.00., adding that the seizures were made within three days.

    The Customs boss said the two suspects, arrested in connection with the incident, are helping his men in their investigation and would soon be charged to court.

    He said his officers and men were determined to tackle smuggling and would bring smugglers to book.

     

  • Customs destroys 1,225 cartons of poultry

    Customs destroys 1,225 cartons of poultry

    The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Western Marine Command (WMC), Lagos, yesterday destroyed 1,225 cartons of contaminated poultry foods sized from smugglers.

    The Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Audu Zaka, assisted by a representative of the National Agency for Food, and Drug Administration NAFDAC, Mr Adamu Isiaku and some other senior officers of the Command, supervised the destruction.

    Zaka said 55 bags of rice and 1,225 cartons of frozen poultry were seized in three days, adding that the total Duty Paid Value (DPV) of the intercepted items was N8, 576,844.50

    The consignments, he said, were smuggled into the country through Benin Republic to Awode Apa on the Nigerian side to Kese where the smugglers wanted to cross the Novo Creek to Ilasa in Ogun State.

    The feat, he said, was made possible because of the synergy with the Central Intelligence Unit (CIU) of the Command and the Comptroller-General’s Task Force.

    “The excellent information sharing between the command and the CIU is helping the command in its anti-smuggling functions. We monitored this consignment right from the border up to the point we intercepted them at Kese”, he said.

    Zaka said on October 31 and November 4, the Command intercepted 950 and 210 cartons of frozen poultry products, adding that the DPV was put at N6.175 million and N1.365 million.