Suspected rice smugglers attack Customs men in Kwara

Date: 2019-06-11

Two officers of the Nigeria Customs Service attached to Kwara/Niger/Kogi area Command were reportedly attacked during a clash with suspected rice smugglers on Tuesday in Ilorin, Kwara State.

The Nigerian Tribune gathered that the customs officers had impounded four buses loaded with imported rice along Ilorin/Offa/Kabba road in the early hours of Tuesday.

The clash with the suspected smugglers reportedly occurred at Offa Garage area of the Ilorin metropolis at about 10 am when the Customs men were trying to convey the four buses loaded with imported rice to their office.

Sources told our correspondent that the Customs men were conveying the four buses loaded with rice to their office in Ilorin when some hoodlums allegedly recruited by the smugglers, who were the rice owners, attacked them. The two officials injured were the drivers who were driving two of the buses to the Customs office in Ilorin, one of the sources said.

"The Customs officers were conveying three of the buses which they seized with rice to their office when some people attacked them at Idi-Igba, Offa Garage area, started to beat them and dragged them out of the vehicle.

"Although, the four buses were being escorted by the Custom patrol van, the one that followed the patrol van had passed and branched to Asa dam road while the three buses that followed about 10 minutes later were the one attacked and driven off by the smugglers," he said.

Speaking on the development, the Public Relations Officer of the Customs in Kwara state, Mrs. Stella Okpo, confirmed the attack on the Customs men, saying that the two officers were seriously injured during the attack.

Okpo said that the injured officers had been taken to hospital for treatment while one of the buses had been impounded and parked at the Ilorin office of the Customs. She said that no arrest had been made on the incident.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Otuka     Hakeem Lawal     Olusegun Adeniyi     Dankaka     Yekeen Alabi     Dairo Kunle Paul     Muhammadu Buhari     Ijakadi     Orisa Bridge     Hussein Oloyede     Adamu Attah     Idofin     Bibire Ajape     Abdulazeez Uthman     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Agor Market     Okiki     Kazeem Oladepo     Abatemi-Usman     Omotoso Musa     Alloy Chukwuemeka     KSIRS     Ekiti     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     ASMAU PLAZA     Ayinke Saka     Babatunde Idiagbon     Gbajabiamila     Mansur Alfanla     Sunset Workers     Usman Rifun     Arca Santa     Saidu Kawu     Babs Iwarere     Press Release     Awwal Jawondo     Tafida     EndSARS     Oniwasi Agbaye     Col. Adedipe     IYA ALFA NLA     Atunwa     Afolayan     Offa Grammer School     Hauwa Nuru     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Ibrahim Labaika     Tunji Ajanaku     Oke-Kura     COEASU     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Amuda Bembe     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Muhammed Danjuma     Aminat Omodara     Ajidagba     Abdulwaheed Musa     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Ibrahim Taiwo     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Aliyu Umar     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Pilgrims Board     Oluwole Dupe     Ben Duntoye     Idi-Ape     Ishaq Oloyede     KWTV     Adesoye     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Kwara Volleyball Association     Shao    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Yaru     Suleiman Ajadi     Hassan A. Saliu     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Florence Saraki     Albert Ogunsola     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Baakini     Photo News     2017 Budget     Oyin-Zubair     Ojuekun Sarumi     Oluronke Adeyemi     Mamatu Abdullahi     Kwara Politics     Haliru Yahaya     Alanamu     Adebara     Kolade Solagberu     Mary Arinde     Odo-Owa     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     CT Ayeni     CKNG     Adekunle David Dunmade     Ganmo     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Olugbense     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Okasanmi Ajayi     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Sunset Workers     Razaq Atunwa     Abatemi Usman     Offa Descendants Union     Old Oyo     Olaosebikan     Atunwa     Local Government     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Federal Allocation     Femi Oladiji     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Reuben Paraje     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Charles Ibitoye     KWSUED     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Aisha Gobir     MalHub     Funmilayo Oniwa     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Owo Arugbo     IPSAS     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Abdulfatai Baakini     Osinbajo     Bashiru Makama     Imam Gambari     Aliyu U. Tilde     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Oloriegbe     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Gbenga Adebayo     Abubakar Usman Jos     Sheikh Ariyibi     NAWOJ     Umar Ayinla Saro     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Danladi     Michael Ologundea     Musa Yeketi