Harboursandport.com: Lagos - The Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone A of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, yesterday said it arrested 60 suspects involved in smuggling, as well as impounded 62 trailer loads of foreign parboiled rice, Indian Hemp, Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, used clothes and tyres and others with a Duty Paid Value, PDV worth over N4 billion in the six months.
The Unit also recovered N400.6 million from goods imported into the country from the nation's seaport with an under-declared value that would have been lost but for the intervention of the Unit, noting also that 60 suspects were arrested within the period under review.
Disclosing this in Lagos, Customs Area Controller, CAC of the Unit, Hussein Ejibunu, said that some of them were ferried through bush paths using motorcycles and rickety vehicles as means of conveyance.
The Customs boss said the items seized are14,015 (7,728) parcels of Indian Hemp, 1,064 bales of used clothing, 450 x 106 kg drums of carbide, 2 x 20 containers of unprocessed wood, and 1,448 pieces of foreign rugs.
He said others are 30 units of used motorcycles, 44 units of used vehicles (Tokunbo), 218,575 litres of premium Motor Spirit (PMS), 860 cartons of foreign poultry products, and 833 pieces of used tyres.
According to him, “Within the first six months of the year, our activities resulted in a high volume and value of seizures with some suspects arrested. We also succeeded in preventing the entry of dangerous or harmful substances like illicit drugs into society.
“Our strategic intervention also achieved recovery of revenue through the issuance of demand notices to complete underpaid duties into the federal government coffers that were being evaded by some importers and their agents.
“For the period under review, we made 580 seizures with a duty-paid value of N4,022,960,075. We also arrested 60 suspects and recovered a total of N400,599,515.66 as revenue through the issuance of demand notices.
“We wish to express our profound gratitude to sister security agencies for their unflinching synergy in the course of our operations; with special mention to the Department of State Security Services.
“Oyo State Command for the arrest of a notorious suspect that was on the wanted list for an attack on a Customs patrol team escorting exhibits. Interestingly, this suspect was arrested and handed over the Unit yesterday,” he noted.
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