Smugglers Lose N622m Contraband To Customs In Ogun, Lagos

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, yesterday, said it intercepted smuggled foreign parboiled rice, Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), used clothing, from smugglers in September, 2022.

Speaking to journalists, the acting Customs Area Controller, of the unit, ag Compt. Hussein Ejibunu, said a pump action rifle, two locally made guns and scores of live bullets from smugglers in Ogun state.

Ejibunu, who said  the unit also seized 7,328 pieces of foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country from neighbouring Benin Republic, said  N107.8million was recovered from importers who underdeclared their cargoes at the Seaports in September, 2022

He further disclosed that 10 pieces of military camouflage bags, 121,550 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as, petrol was also intercepted.

He said: “chief among the September seizures was a massive discovery of bales of 1,955 bales of used clothing in an abandoned building around the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex.

“We made the discovery and evacuation using combined strategies of intelligence, tact and enforcement. Also within the same period, a large cache of premium motor spirit (PMS) ingeniously concealed inside sacks was intercepted at the Badagry Axis of Lagos State. Other seizures recorded within the same period are, 7,328 x 50kg bags of foreign parboiled rice.