Nigeria: Navy Impounds Foreign Rice Worth N130m in Calabar

5 January 2020

Calabar — Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS, Victory has impounded bags of foreign parboiled rice illegally imported into the country through the Calabar Water Channel.

Rear Admiral Vincent Okeke, the Commander NNS Victory who paraded six suspects and the bags of rice at the naval base warehouse said the street value of the rice is estimated at one hundred and thirty million naira and stated that the rice was brought in from Cameroon through Calabar Water Channel.

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