Nigerian Navy arrests smugglers, seizes 825 bags of rice in Kwara

Date: 2019-07-13

Officers and men of the Nigerian Navy, Offa, Kwara State on Sunday intercepted 825 bags of smuggled rice coming from Oyo State to Kwara State.

Speaking with journalists while parading suspected smugglers and their commodity in Offa on Sunday, Commandant Nigeria Navy School of Health Sciences, Captain Ayodele Olowolagba, said that the arrest was made at about 5:00 a.m. on Sunday.

"This morning at about 0500 hours that's 5 am this morning July 7, 2019, while conducting checks at the old checkpoint, opposite Nigerian Navy School of Health Sciences, Offa gate, (because we have both the right and left checkpoints security in front of the school), 15 vehicles both Peugeot and golf cars were arrested.

"Each of them carries 55 bags of foreign rice, totalling 825 bags of rice. The commodities in the car would be handed over to the police in the presence of the Customs.

"Nigerian Navy is a friendly force. We are very friendly even with the immediate community. With the security services we carry around Offa and Kwara State, we would not do anything inimical to the success of all the activities of the government in power. We are committed to making sure that all the activities of the government are carried out peacefully.

"This is part of our efforts to beef up security in Offa and his neighbouring towns. In the course of carrying this exercise daily, Nigerian Navy personnel has been encountering persons carrying illicit acts to the extent that they often threaten to deal with security personnel on official duty.

"Despite the threat, the personnel are uncompromising and resolute in carrying out their legal duties to the nation. This is despite the allegation by this smugglers that the Navy personnel are compromising," he said.

One of the suspects, who is a driver of one of the vehicles, Ahmad Mustafa, confessed to the crime, saying that he was coming from Shaki with the commodity for sale in Offa, Kwara State.

Mustafa, while being paraded, said that he was not the owner of the rice, adding that he was sent by a man called Pilot, who lives in Shaki.

He added that he was plying the Offa road for the first time.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kwara State University Of Education     Zainab Abass     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Femi Agbaje     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Unilorin FM     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Umar Ayinla Saro     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Kamoru Kadiri     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Ayobami Seriki     MAI Akande     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Ishaq Salman     Kwara Basketball Association     Abraysports FC     Adedeji Onimago     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Oyedepo     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Hauwa Nuru     KWASEIC     David Oyedepo     Adisa Logun     Garba Ado Sanni     Lotus Bank     Lai Mohammed     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Obasanjo     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Kabir Shagaya     Madawaki     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     QuickWin     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Afonja     A.E. Afolabi     April 11     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Bio Ibrahim     CKNG     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     CUTI     Alfa Belgore     Radio SBS     Lithium     Kazeem Oladepo     Aisha Gobir     KWATMA     Abubakar Usman Jos     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Ilesha-Baruba     SSUCOEN     Medview Airlines     General Hospital, Offa     Olaiya Zuberu     Baruten     Lukman Adeloyin     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Abubakar Aliagan     Hussein Oloyede     Shao     Orisa Bridge     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Unicontinental Construction Company     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Alagbado     Folashade Omoniyi     Hussein Olokooba     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Olokoba     Mamatu Abdullahi     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Paul Olawoore     Gobirawa     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Kayode Ishola     Rueben Parejo     Jawondo     Garba Idris Ajia     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Wole Oke     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Bello Oyedepo     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Read With Me     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Ilorin South     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Ademola Kiyesola     Oyawoye     Onilorin     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Musa Alhassan Buge     CT Ayeni     High Court     Unilorin     Olaitan Adefila     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Christopher Ayeni     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Zaratu Umar     Atiku     Mazars Consulting     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Ramat Oganija     Admiralty Villa     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Michael Nzekwe     SWAN     Asa     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     HICA     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Naira Redesign     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Idowu Laro     Public Holiday     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Michael Ologundea     Nurudeen Mohammed     Bashiru Makama     Maigida     Kayode Yusuf     Bature Bello     Students Union Government     FOMWAN     Taofik Abdulkareem     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Royal FM     Overland     Sulyman Buhari     Monkey Pox     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Shuaib Olarongbe     Bayo Ajia     Patience Jonathan     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Ghali Alaaya     Umar Danladi Shero     Bello Abubakar     JUSUN     Elerin Of Adanla     Bankole Omishore     Abubakar Suleiman     Gbemi Saraki