Nigeria
Customs, Zone A, Ikeja, Lagos has intercepted contraband goods with duty paid
value (DPV) of N1.035 billion.
Mohammed
Uba, the Comptroller of the Zone made the disclosure at a press briefing at the
Ikeja office of the command on Wednesday.
Items seized
include 18 assorted vehicles, 4,201 bags of foreign parboiled rice; 2619
cartons of frozen poultry products, 1,105 jerry cans of vegetable oil; 2,637
pieces of used tyres; 1,333 bales of used clothing, 2,001 kg of pangolin; 343kg
of Elephant Tusks.
Vehicles
seized are 1 Rolls Royce, 1 Chrysler, 1 Audi Q7 among others.
While
enumerating some of the Unit’s achievements in the anti-smuggling operations in
the month under review, Uba said some of the vehicles were intercepted along
Ijebu Ode Expressway, and others were evacuated from a car mar located in
Lekki.
Uba further
stated that based on intelligence, the Warehouse Operation Team raided an
apartment at N0 33, Ogundana Street, off Allen, Ikeja and evacuated 55 sacks of
Pangolin Shells weighing 2001jg valued at N408 million; 218 pieces of Elephant
Tusk weighing 343kg valued 85million.
He said NCS
has upped their game in line with the provisions of Sections 147 of Customs and Exercise
Management Act (CEMA) Cap 45 laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004
(Power to Search Premises; Section 158 of CEMA, Cap 45 Laws of Federation of
Nigeria (Power to patrol Freely) and different International Protocols and Convention.
In one of
the operations, according to the Ikeja Zone Comptroller, seventeen suspects
have been arrested in connection with 90 seizures including Mr. Ko Sin Ying, a
Chinese national.
Uba thanked
the media and solicited their cooperation and support to inform, sensitise and
educate the general public on the effects of smuggling to the nation’s economy
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