Harboursandports.com: Lagos --- The Federal Operations
Unit, FOU, Zone A, the anti smuggling unit of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS
has intercepted exotic vehicles and other contraband items with Duty Paid
Value, DPV, of N2.017 million in four weeks, Customs Area Controller,
CAC, of the unit, Aliyu Mohammed has said.
Disclosing this in
Lagos, Mohammed said apart from that the exotic vehicles which are 22 in number
also includes nine that are bullet proof. Other seized items are 11, 303 bags
of rice (19 trailers load), 2,410 frozen poultry products and 853 Jerry can of
vegetable oil, he noted.
Mohammed gave others
items impounded by the unit during the period under review as 245 parcels of
Indian Hemp, 4x40 foot containers of unprocessed wood, 2,017 bales of used
clothing and 283 cartoons of various pharmaceuticals products imported without
registration by the National Agency for Food , and Drugs Administration and
Control, NAFDAC.
The Customs boss also
said that the unit recovered about N220 billion from Debt Notes, ND issued to
importers and their agents who under declared their consignments, transfer
their value or short change in payment of their duty.
He said such goods
were imported into the country from the seaports, airport and border station.
Amongst the sexed
vehicles according to the Customs boss are nine that are bullet proof (four
Lexus Jeep LX570, 2016, three Land Cruiser Jeeps, 2016 and two Mercedes Benz
G63 and S550, 2014/2015), one Toyota Rev4, 2014 and three Toyota Hilux, 2018.
"Others are two
Toyota Highlander, 2018, one Toyota Prado, 2018, one Toyota land Cruiser, 2016,
one Toyota Corolla, one Toyota Fortuner, 2017, amongst others.
"These 22exotic
vehicles alone have a DPV of N1.179 billion. While some of the vehicles were
intercepted at Ogere and Ijebu Ode expressway, the bullet proof vehicles were
trailed and evacuated from some private residence in Victoria Island based on
credible information," he noted.
He further stated that
in the spirit of anti-agency collaboration, the seized Indian hemp and the
medicament will be handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,
NDLEA and NAFDAC for thorough investigation.
Mohammed also disclosed
that 28 suspects have been arrested in connection with the 89 seizures made
during the period under review.
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