Kayode Shopekan
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun state Command has seized goods worth N72.5 million in the month of August 2021.
NCS, Ogun Area Command 1, Comptroller, Peter Kolo, said the command has made significant progress in its anti-smuggling operations in the state during the month of August, with a total record of 95 seizures.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelKolo, made this known on Thursday during a monthly scorecard briefing held at Idiroko border area of the state.
He said the Command impounded 830 cartons of frozen poultry products, 15 vehicles, used foreign clothes, bags, shoes, illicit drugs, 4,138 bags of smuggled rice and 592 Jerry cans of fuel in the month of August.
The Comptroller disclosed that the command generated the sum of N1,997,500 (one million nine hundred and ninety seven thousand five hundred naira) from the auction of seized petroleum products and scrap metals.
Other items impounded during the period under review include six sacks of cannabis sativa and other illicit drugs, six bales and 15 sacks of used clothings, six sacks and 90 pieces of used handbags, six sacks and 34 pairs of used shoes, 592 kegs of petroleum products of 25 litres each and many other items.
Kolo commended the customs officers for their gallantry and commitment in the face of “sustained intimidation and unwarranted attacks by desperate dare devil smugglers,” he said.
The Ogun NCS Boss urged the officers to maintain high level of professionalism in carrying out their statutory duties.
He also appreciated sister security agencies, traditional rulers and other critical stakeholders for collaboration with the NCS in fighting against smuggling in the state.
He said 20 suspected smugglers were being prosecuted over illegal importation of contraband.
