CUSTOMS SEIZES SMUGGLED GOOD WORTH N500MILLION
‘The truck carrying 1,963 cartons of Spaghetti and 780 Jerrycans of Vegetable oil was yesterday impounded along Potiskum-Gombe road. The three J5 buses conveying 90 Bales of second hand clothing, each fully loaded with 30 Bales were today impounded by our personnel on patrol along Kano-Bauchi road’, he said
“The Mercedes-Benz truck with the concealed bags of Rice was impounded by our men along Jos-Bauchi road on last Saturday.The total worth of the goods is about N500 million’, Olugboyega added.
The Comptroller noted that smuggling, had over time affected the country economy, leading to huge losses in the revenue drive of the country and expressed the commitment of the service to reduce the menace to the barest minimum.
Penpushing further reports that, Olugboyega said the drivers of the vehicles carrying the smuggled items were arrested and would soon be prosecuted alongside the smugglers warning Nigerians to desist from smuggling, stressing that that anyone caught would be prosecuted according to the provisions of the law.
