Laleye Dipo in Minna
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Niger/Kogi Area Command, has generated over N60.6million from seized contraband goods in November, the Comptroller, Mr. Busayo Kadejo, has disclosed in Minna, Niger State.
Briefing some journalists, Kadejo said N56.6million of the amount was from the sale of petrol loaded in jerry-cans being smuggled in a truck while Demand Notices (DN) generated over N10millon.
He said the achievement was as a result of the deployment of “massive intelligence and the respect of our rules of engagements” in addition to the support given to the Command by the Comptroller-General by way of providing utility vehicles to the Command.
Kadejo said during the operations carried out by the Command “no casualty” was recorded.
He warned smugglers and “criminal elements that no matter how highly placed they are in society, we will not spare them.
“Our job is to implement the federal government’s fiscal policies, we are committed to achieving that and are determined to frontally confront smugglers and all other economic saboteurs whose antics we will always discover and continue to make arrests, seizures and cripple their operations.”
Kadejo reminded Nigerians that the federal government’s policy on the closure of border is still in force in Babana.
Early in the year the Command seized 11 exotic cars and other vehicles smuggled into the country with diplomatic vehicle registration number plates and compressed cannabis sativa with street value of N20.6million.
