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…Impound N37.8m hard drugs from smugglers
The Seme Area Command of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has seized Premium Motor Spirit worth N7,697,299.00 in the last eleven months of 2019. This is even as the Command stated that within the same period under review, hard drugs and narcotics worth N37,874,400.00 were impounded by its officers.
Disclosing this on Monday during a press briefing at the joint border post, the Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba disclosed that within the period of eleven months, the command anti-smuggling operations yielded a total of 1302 seizures with a duty paid value (DPV) of N 1,578,825,136.00.
According to Uba Garba, “These seizures include the following: 28,180x50kg bags of foreign parboiled rice, equivalent to 47 trailers load with DPV plus levy of N777,735,270.00; 140x50kg of Sugar with DPV of N588,000.00; 62 numbers of used vehicles and means of conveyance with DPV of N220, 435,130.00; 1100 bales of used clothing and 101 sacks of used clothing with DPV of N70,173,465.00; 185 sacks of shoes, bags, belt, slippers both new and used with DPV of N27, 600,704.00; 1,539x6yard, 30x7yard, and 16x6yard of textile materials and wrappers with DPV of N10,521,475.00; 5,489 cartons of frozen poultry products with DPV of N49,401, 000.00; 397x25ltrs, 9x10ltrs and 37x5ltrs of vegetable oil with DPV of N138,620,396.00; 2,109x25ltrs of premium motor spirit (PMS) with DPV of N7,697,299.00; 14, 955 items of general merchandise with DPV of N234, 390 597.00; and 1992 parcels of hard drugs and narcotics with DPV of N37,874,400.00.”
