Niger/Kogi Customs Seize Car, Others Worth N755m

Niger/Kogi Customs Area Command has seized 101 units of exotic cars, clothes, rugs and consumables worth N755.3 million.

The Niger/Kogi area controller, Mr Abubakar Mohammed Adam, who showed the seized items at the Commands Headquarters in Minna, said that the command has deployed measures toward ensuring that the area becomes unbearable to smugglers and non-compliant traders who engage in smuggling.

The NCS controller said “the Cumulative Duty Paid Value (DPV) for all the seized items amounted to seven hundred and fifty-five million, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand, eight hundred and sixty-six Naira only (N755,377,866.00),”.

He said the success was recorded as a result of massive intelligence deployed during the operations, but added the men applied basic rules of engagement during the operations and as  no casualties were recorded.

Adamu said with the posting of the Post Clearance Audit (PCA) and Valuation officers to the Command, the Command has been able to recover N74,919,135 from Demand notices and disposal of seized PMS.

He warned the smugglers living within Niger/Kogi Area Command and its environs that the federal government’s directive on border closure is still in force in Babanna which is the only border station in the Command and there will be no export or import activities through the border until further notice.

The customs boss said “Let me again warn smugglers and criminal elements that we will always discover all illegal routes they use for their nefarious activities, make seizures, arrest and cripple their illegitimate. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.”