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Nigeria: Customs Impounds N2 Billion Contraband Goods
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This Day (Lagos)
8 May 2008
Posted to the web 8 May 2008
Lagos
The Federal Operations Unit (F.O.U), Zone 'A' of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has impounded contraband goods worth over N2 billion.
The Comptroller of the unit, Mr Rasheed Taiwo, told newsmen in Lagos yesterday that the goods were intercepted few days ago.
Taiwo said that the goods seized included textiles, second-hand clothes, jewelry, vegetable oil, wheel barrows and bags of rice.
He said that the goods were intercepted at the Nigeria-Benin Republic border areas of Seme and Idi-Iroko, Ijebu-Ode and Ondo State.
Taiwo said that seizures with Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N342 million were also recorded in the first quarter of the year.
According to him, these include 367 units of used vehicles, 149,349 pieces of textile materials, 873 bales of new and second-hand clothes and 1,896 bundles and rolls of textiles.
The other goods impounded are 21,591 pairs of trousers, 2,355 bags of rice, 1,211 cans of vegetable oil, 250 cartons of poultry products, 440 units of used fridges/freezers and 368 pieces of fairly used compressors.
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The Comptroller said that eight suspects were arrested in connection with the smuggled items.
He, however, said that there was a drop in the quantity of seizures in the first quarter, attributing this to the anti-smuggling campaigns of the customs.
"This sustained tempo of anti-smuggling war has definitely put fears in smugglers and that has obviously made them to look elsewhere," Taiwo said.
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