Nigeria: Illegal Arms Importation - How SSS, Police Others Shared N1 Million - Customs Official

20 February 2018

One of the accused persons facing trial over the unlawful importation of 661 pump action rifles into the country Monday told a federal judge he paid N1 million to security agencies to smuggle the goods out of the ports.

Mahmud Hassan, as Assistant Comptroller of Customs, said this in a recorded interrogation by officials of the State Security Service which was tendered before the court in a trial-within-trial before Ayotunde Faji, a judge of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court.

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