the brand new vicinity Controller, Hassan Gangua, addressing newshounds on the command’s Idiroko border office on Thursday, said the person diesel petroleum tanker with quantity plate FST fifty one XE, turned into particularly built for smuggling.
He said the tanker, stuffed to potential with the smuggled rice, was intercepted by using customs operatives of the command on Monday November 15, 2016, alongside the Idiroko border axis on its way to Lagos.
“This interception become made by way of our gallant officials 24 hours after my arrival,” he said.
Gangua brought that every other 25 vehicles with integrated cubicles, also loaded with baggage of smuggled rice, had been additionally intercepted inside the same axis.
In some other development, the region Controller said another trailer allegedly wearing about 500 baggage of rice became intercepted alongside Lagos-Sagamu interchange on Monday, November 21, 2016.
He additionally said within the ultimate one week, four cars loaded with 4,000 cartons of frozen hen products and 19 bikes used for smuggling of rice were intercepted.
He said the poultry merchandise were destroyed.
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