Leadership (Abuja)

Nigeria: Customs Urges Officers to Re-Strategise Against Smuggling

The Customs Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Ikeja, on Tuesday asked officers of the unit to re-strategise in order to improve on their anti-smuggling activities.

Mr Uche Ejesieme, the Public Relations Officer of the unit newsmen that the Area Controller, Mr Dan Ugo, had released a road map on the new vision.

Ejesieme said that the road map would assist the officers to properly secure the borders and actualise the vision of the service. He warned smugglers to keep off the border posts, adding that the service was ready to enforce government's anti-smuggling policy.

"At the FOU here, we are ever ready, we are prepared and we are ready to wreak havoc on anybody who tries to go against the Federal Government policy in terms of trade and others.

"So we are fully prepared. We have the human capacity, we have what it takes to fight smuggling and we would not relent. We are monitoring every place in the South West."

The PRO said that the Comptroller-General of Custom Dr Abdulahi Dikko-Inde had been retraining officers and also provided some patrol equipment to complement the effort of the officers in 2013.

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