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.

Dele Belgore     Arik     Council Of The Wise     Mohammed Halidu     Turaki Of Ilorin     Ilorin Central Mosque     Aminat Omodara     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Tunji Oyawoye     Shero     Sanitation Exercise     Adeola Abraham     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Obasanjo     Onilorin Of Ilorin     CUTI     Abubakar Ndakene     Tafidan Kaiama     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Oke-Odo     Florence Saraki     ASMAU PLAZA     Owo Arugbo     KWAFFA     Saeedat Aliyu     Fola Consultant     Lanre Badmas     Tanke Road     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Col. Taiwo     Mamman Saba Jibril     Hamidu Olowo     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Charcoal     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Sunday Otokiti     BIR     Ndakene     Ahmad Lawan     Buari Edun     Kwara Politics     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Kayode Laro     Fatimah Abdulkadir     GRA     Kulende-UITH     NIPOGA     UNIFEMGA     NIRSAL     Okoolowo     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Lanre Jimoh     Alabere     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Umar Ayinla Saro     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Ijakadi     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Lai Gobir     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Segun Olawoyin     Saliu Tunde Bello     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Kuliyan Geri     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Reuben Paraje     Saheed Akinwumi     Bibire Ajape     Saadu Yusuf     UTME     Kwara NIPR     Ilorin Metro Park     Oyelere Oyinloye     Ayodele Shittu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Elewu     Ilesha Gwanara Road     James Kolo     Babajide Ajayi     Kumbi Titiloye     Bank Of Industry     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Emir Of Shonga     Abdulazeez Arowona     Trader Moni     Saba Jibril     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Pius Abioje     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Doyin Group     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Halimah Perogi     Timothy Akangbe     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Omoniyi Ayinla     Florence Saraki     Lanre Issa Onilu     IESA     Illyasu Abdullahi     Quranic Recitation Competition     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Olosi Of Osi     Azeez Salawu     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Paul Olawoore     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Donatus Ejidike     CT Ayeni     Paul Odama     Oyin-Zubair     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Kwara Volleyball Association     Mumeen Lah     Omotosho     Waheed Ibrahim     Aso Ofi     Oba Abu     John Olajide Adedipe     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Al-Hikmah University     Kwara State Government     Tafida Of Kaiama     Ayinke Saka     Kwara State Fire Service     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Valsolar     Jelili Yusuf     Dagbalodo     Oya State     Jimoh Akani     Shehu Adaramaja     Quran     Oba-Solagberu     Henry Olaosebikan     Toyin Saraki     Rafiu Olasile     United Nigeria Congress Party     NaAllah     Garment Factory     Ilorin.Info     Idowu Aremu     SARS     Balogun-Ojomu     Universal Basic Education Commission     Garba Dogo     Shettima     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Ridwan Agboola     Kola Shittu     Basit Olatunji     Jare Olatundun