NIGERIA Customs Service (NCS) at the weekend intercepted 102,000 pieces of live ammunitions smuggled into Nigeria from Ghana in what the NCS Comptroller-General, Alhaji Ahmed Mustapha called an abuse of ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme (ETLS).
Confirming the unprecedented trans-border interception of ammunitions to journalists in Lagos yesterday, the Comptroller-General said two persons including a Ghanaian and a Nigerian (names withheld) have been arrested. According to Mustapha, the life cartridges were concealed inside some trade goods which were on their way from the neighbouring West African country.
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