Nigeria Customs Service has seized 5,020 cartons of smuggled poultry products with a Duty Paid Value of N30m.
The Nigeria Customs Service from the Federal Operations Unit, Ikeja, has seized 5,020 cartons of smuggled poultry products with a Duty Paid Value of N30m hidden in a truck containing 2,016 pieces of Nestle-bottled water along the Sagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway.
Comptroller Amade Abdul, Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, disclosed that on Sunday, a special assignment team, led by Assistant Comptroller of Customs, Shittu Abdulmaruf, intercepted the truck while on information patrol at about 9pm October 1, 2015.
Abdul said, "The vehicle was immediately brought down to the headquarters of the FOU in Ikeja, where a search revealed the smuggled poultry products concealed between packages of the bottled water."
He added that a suspect had been apprehended in connection with the seizure and would give clues towards unraveling the major kingpins behind the crime.
"We suspected that the smugglers wanted to take the advantage of the Eld-el Kabir celebration to perpetrate their crime. We have recorded remarkable achievement in the fight against smugglers of poultry products. This can be observed from the scarcity and high cost of the products in the Nigerian market.
"Our aggressive patrols have turned the heat on smugglers, forcing them to seek alternative means of smuggling, but we are determined to prevent them from succeeding."
Abdul called on Nigerians to support the NCS in its fight against economic saboteurs to avert the adverse consequences of smuggling. "We have taken cognisance of the new order and we must work towards ensuring that the mission and vision of the Comptroller-General is actualised."
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