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  • Kano/Jigawa Customs impounds foreign rice, others worth N45m

    The Kano/Jigawa Customs Area Command has impounded over 1500 bags of foreign rice alongside other contraband items valued at over N45 million.

    Displaying the seized goods at the Kano Area Command headquarters yesterday, the Area Comptroller,Nasir Ahmad said 20 vehicles worth N7.2 million were used as means of transporting the seized items.

    He said over 260 jerry cans of foreign vegetable oil valued at N3.7 million were intercepted at various locations, adding that 25 bags of foreign sugar were also seized valued at N412,510.

    According to him, the command has also impounded 20 used exotic vehicles at various boarder locations and now in detention awaiting the owners to come forward for clearance.

    Ahmad said the various contrabands that were impounded were intercepted at Miltara Road, Gumel boarder in Jigawa, Bello Road, Katsina Road, Babura, Achilafiya, Zaria Road and Maigatari border in Jigawa State.

    Ahmad said: ” You can see another method that is being used by smugglers to smuggle in rice into the country by using empty jerry cans to conceal the rice.

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    “If you see a bus conveying empty jerry cans of vegetable oil, one would hardly suspect anything but alas! it is another way of transporting smuggled foreign rice.

    “We have resolved that any vehicle coming out of the zone must be properly inspected.

    “There should be no snuggling of rice especially to these part of the country where rice is largely cultivated and with lots of rice mills that can give us enough local rice.”

  • Kano/Jigawa Customs impound N76m contraband goods

    Smugglers have now devised a new method by using cows to smuggle contraband foreign rice into the country through porous borders as Kano/Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Customs on Monday paraded two cows, 27 vehicles, nine motor cycles and one tricycle used in smuggling various types of contraband consignments worth over N76 million.

    According to the Comptroller of Kano/Jigawa Customs Command, Nasir Ahmed, who briefed Reporters at the Kano headquarters, he said the Command between November 1 and 26, impounded 3079 of rice, 770 cartons of spaghetti, 17 bales of second hand clothes, 40 bags of foreign sugar and 101 jerry cans of foreign vegetable oil with duty paid value of N76 million.

    Ahmed said one suspect was arrested, adding that youths in the border town of Babura in Jigawa state have now indulged in using motorcycles to aide smugglers to ferry their smuggled goods through the bush paths.

    He, however, appealed to parents and traditional rulers in the community to warn their wards to desist from aiding and abating smuggling activities, adding that, “anyone caught by the anti-smuggling squad of the Customs risk being arrested and prosecuted.”

     He added that, “today we are here to show you the number of seizures we have made from the November 1 to November 26. This is made in consonance with the fact that the basic things we are supposed to do as Customs officers is to stop smuggling, we are here to facilitate trade and generate revenue.

    “These seizures are made possible with the assistant of the communities, the Customs Intelligence Unit (CIU), my officers on the patrol and the realization that we don’t have another country rather than Nigeria.

    “The only way we can do this is to stop smuggling of rice because a nation that is not sufficient in food cannot be said to be a nation. This is President Muhammadu Buhari is talking on food security. We cannot have food security when we want to engage in smuggling.

    “We tell the smugglers to try another business because we are here. We are not going away. We are not slowing down for them, we will always get them. Like I said before, we are not going to back down.”

  • Kano/Jigawa Customs generates N8b in six months

    The Kano/Jigawa Area command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) generated over N8,070,570,235.37 between January and June as against the projected N7,389,024,423.42.

    The command has surpassed its revenue target of 681,545, 811.95k given by the Comptroller-General Col. Hameed Ali (rtd).

    Area Comptroller Yusuf Abba Kasim, who addressed reporters yesterday at the command’s headquarters, said over 74 seizures were made during anti-smuggling raids.

    According to him, 266,944,264.00 was realised as Duty Paid Value (DPV) from contraband goods impounded by the command.

    He said: “With the efforts of resilient officers, some items were intercepted and seized during raids on boarders and warehouses. These items include 41 vehicles; 8,677 bags of 50kg foreign rice; 884 cartons of foreign spaghetti; 1,955 jerry cans of foreign vegetable oil (25 litres each).

    Others include 29 bales of second-hand clothes; 24 cartons of foreign soap; 103 bags of foreign sugar (50kg each), among others.”

    Kasim reiterated the command’s commitment to rid the states of contraband goods and smuggling.

  • Kano/Jigawa customs command makes N6b in six months

    Kano/Jigawa customs command makes N6b in six months

    The Kano/Jigawa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) generated over N5,964,379,879.52 between January and June,  representing 59.35 per cent and exceeding the target by 9.35 per cent.

    It intercepted over 108 types of contraband, with its duty value put at N58,813,495.

    Area Comptroller Yusuf Abba Kassim told reporters that the 11 Hilux vehicles discovered in a house in Kano, have been released after paying a N19 million duty fee, on the order of the Comptroller-General of Custom, Col. Hameed Ali.

    Kassim added that four other Hilux vehicles, impounded by his men on the Kano/Katsina road, are being detained at the Customs Headquarters. According to him, the vehicles were smuggled into the country.

    He noted that since the year began, the command had been generating over N1 billion, as against the N840,000,000 target, per month.

    He attributed the feat to motivation and provision of logistics by the Col. Ali.