Harboursandport.com: Owerri - The Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone C, of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, in Owerri has disclosed that it intercepted goods concealed and smuggled valued at N1.280 billion between January to March 2021 within their areas of jurisdiction which covers south-south/southeast zones.
Customs Area Controller (CAC) of FOU, Zone C, Comptroller Yusuf Lawal briefing the press after inspection of the seized items.
The items impounded include 2,976 bags of 50kg each of foreign parboiled rice, 1,024 cartons of Colcaps medicament without NAFDAC certification, 290 cartons of Foreign Eva Soap, 204 Cartons of Foreign Tomatoes Paste, 130 Jumbo bales of used clothing, 5,200 live ammunition cartridges, 6 exotic vehicles; one Toyota land cruiser bulletproof 2019 model without End User Certificate from NSA, one Toyota Hilux 2020 model, one Toyota Corolla 2018 model among others.
Customs Area Controller (CAC) of FOU, Zone C, Comptroller Yusuf Lawal inspecting some of the seized items.
Speaking at a press briefing in Owerri, the Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the Unit Comptroller Yusuf Lawal said based on the intervention of his men they recovered the sum of N7,557,731 from demand notices raised, making a cumulative sum of N1,288,442,742.00 within the months under review.
The Customs boss, however, urged all well-meaning Nigerians to support the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS in the fight against smuggling by providing credible and timely intelligence that will help the Unit reduce smuggling to its barest minimum. "We hope to improve more in the second quarter by intensifying our surveillance," he said.
Comptroller Yusuf Lawal stressed that this feat would not have been possible without the logistics support from the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) and the entire Management of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).
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