The Federal Operations Unit of the Nigerian Customs Service in Zone B, Kaduna, has reported that the unit seized vehicles and other illegal goods worth N1 trillion between May and July.
The Punch reported that the command’s public relations officer, Isah Sulieman, said in a statement on Friday that during the time period under consideration, the command registered 179 seizures.
The Customs Area Controller in charge of the unit, Musa Jalo, claimed that various sites throughout the zone were where the contraband was discovered.
“I’m especially happy to inform you that the unit underrecorded a total of 179 seizures worth N1tn between May and July this year,” he stated.
According to Jalo, the illegal substances were seized in Kebbi by a joint border patrol squad.
He said that among the things seized are “vehicles, smuggled foreign parboiled rice and second-hand clothes, foreign soaps, vegetable oil, and pasta.
“21 used vehicles, 11 units of vehicles (as means of transportation), 2,780 cartons of foreign spaghetti, macaroni, and couscous, 48 bags of foreign parboiled rice weighing 25 kilograms each, 226 jerrycans of foreign refined vegetable oil and 278 bales of foreign used clothing.
Others include 15 sacks of foreign-used shoes, 140 cartons of international tin tomato paste, 149 cartons of foreign fruit juice, foreign soap, foreign matches, milk, milky creamer, green tea, and milk. 1000 jerrycans of quality motor spirit, each holding 25 liters, and 140 jerrycans of vehicle petrol oil.
The head of Customs Zone B warned the offenders to stop and engage in legal trade since the unit had no plans to negotiate the extant laws.
