Customs seize ammunitions and contrabands worth N600m

The Nigeria Customs Service reported that in September, it detained five suspects, seized weapons and other contrabands valued at over N622 million in duty payment and arrested five individuals.

The Acting Customs Area Controller in charge of the Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, of the service, Hussein Ejibunu, stated in a press briefing on Wednesday that the unit also recovered N107m during the time period under review.

He said the team discovered imported bales of used garment left in an uncompleted building in Lagos.

He continued by saying that during the time period under review, the team discovered a huge stash of Premium Motor Spirit hidden inside sacks along the Badagry axis in Lagos State.

“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 PMS ingeniously concealed inside sacks was intercepted at the Badagry Axis of Lagos State,” he added.

The Acting Controller noted that: “Other seizures recorded within the same period are, “7,328 x 50kg bags of foreign parboiled rice, 121,550 liters of premium motor spirit, 68 cartons of frozen poultry, 37 crates of eggs used to conceal rice, 150 kg parcels of Indian hemp, 10 pieces of military Camouflage bags, Six units of used cars, I unit of pump action rifle, 2 units of locally made guns and 35 live cartridges. Five suspects were arrested in connection with some of the seizures mentioned above”.

However, he said the Federal High Court rendered three decisions in the units’ favor, leading to the conviction of six people for illegally possessing smuggled products.

Ejibunu added that six civil lawsuits brought against the Unit were dismissed.