IDIROKO BORDER: SMUGGLERS ATTACK CUSTOMS

‘The Team succeeded in intercepting 28 bags of smuggled foreign parboiled rice (50 kg each) and Two Motorcycles used in conveying some of the said items. On their way to deposit the items at the station, some hoodlums suspected be smugglers and their accomplice blocked the road to the station’.

He added,’ armed with dangerous weapons (machetes, cutlass and Dane Guns) consequently attempting to disarm Officers, set official vehicle ablaze and forcefully cart away the aforementioned smuggled items’.

‘Therefore, in line with our rules of engagement, after all reasonable efforts were made to control situation short of using force and considering the fact that the lives of officers were in danger, our officers were left with no option than to use minimum force on the miscreants so as secure the lives of our officers, disperse the hoodlums and to secure the seizure’, Maiwada said.

‘Similarly, the goods were successfully brought to the station with two suspects arrested (names withheld) in connection with the incident. We will like to seize this opportunity to appeal to citizens to partner with the law rather than aiding/shielding economic saboteurs/unpatriotic Nigerians; he emphasised.