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.

Lai Gobir     Olupako     Micheal Imoudu     Aminat Ahmed     Sa\'adu Gambari     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Tayo Alao     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Issa Baba     Usman Yunusa     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Oke-Ode     N-Power     Igosun     Kayode Laro     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Hassanat Bello     Kayode Ishola     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Ilorin Like-Minds     Chief Of Staff     PharmAccess Foundation     Sobi FM     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Saad Belgore     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Olabimpe Olani     Saliu Alamoyo     Moronfoye     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Ayinde Oki     Lanre Issa Onilu     Ebola     Kawu     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Firdaos Amasa     Kwara Consultative Forum     Idiagbon     Saka Isau     School Of Nursing     Hassan A. Saliu     Bilikisu Gambari     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Galadima     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Baba Issa     Lola Olabayo     Kabir Shagaya     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Mohammed Abduraheem     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Abdullahi Biffo     Bola Shagaya     Ajikobi     Afonja     Amuda Bembe     Onilu     Popo-Igbonna     Wahab Issa     Osuwa     Voices Of Tomorrow     Yusuf Lawal     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Forgo Battery     All Peoples Party     Bisi Oyeleke     Shehu Jimoh     Jebba     UITH     ITP     Bukola Saraki     Amuda Aluko     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sanitation Exercise     PPS     IEDPU     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Amuda Musbau     Olabode Towoju     Hijab     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Oloriegbe     Bola Tinubu     Mansur Alfanla     Mogaji Aare     Popo-Igbonna     Busari Alabi Alausa     Saka Adeyemo     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Christian Association Of Nigeria     CBT     Sobi FM     IYA YUSUF     Erubu     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     FERMA     Temi Kolawole     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Moji Makanjuola     Modibo Kawu     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Biliaminu Aliu     Jimoh Akani     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     COVID-19 Palliatives     Timothy Akangbe     Zaratu Umar     Kolawole Bashirat     Muhammadu Gobir     Gaa Olobi     Aliyu Muhammed     Pakata     Olatinwo     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Sambo Murtala     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Kale Ayo     Oyun     Elewu     Kayode Bankole     Wasiu Onidugbe     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Ilorin Airport     Saadu Yusuf     Funmilayo Zubair     Quranic Recitation Competition     Tayo Awodiji     Mustapha Akanbi     Bio Ibrahim     Salihu Ajia     Musa Yeketi     Read With Me     Bolakale Saka     Bashirat Bola Bello     Gbemi Saraki     Oko-Erin     Rex Olawoye     Adegoke Bamidele     Agbarere     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Iponrin     Shehu Adaramaja     Suleiman Ajadi     Oko     Ladi Hassan     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Mohammed Abduraheem