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.

Ilorin Muslim Community     Student Learning Support Helpline     PharmAccess Foundation     Dele Momodu     Ariyo     KWASSIP     EFCC     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Saidu Kawu     Ramadhan     Jare Olatundun     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Raji AbdulRasaq     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Offa     Oniwasi Agbaye     Plat Technologies Limited     Lukman Adeloyin     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Logun     KWTV     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Kwara Restoration Project     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Yusuf Abubakar     Belgore     Kemi Adeosun     March 28     Bisi Oyeleke     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Tosin Saraki     Bilikisu Gambari     Abdulwahab Ololele     Rebecca Bake     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Apaokagi     Moshood Mustapha     Photo News     Farouk Salim     Oyawoye     CBT     Al-Hikmah University     Alagbado     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Owu Fall     Sango-UITH Road     Summit University     Kunbi Titiloye     Eruku     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Sidikat Akaje     Galland Marcias     Marafan Shonga     Oluronke Adeyemi     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     SSA Youth Engagement     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Onilorin     Harrison Osauwagboe     Aremu Odolaye     Akeem Olatunji     Ahmed \'Lateef     Kubra Kazum     Aminu Adisa Logun     Cassava Growers\' Association     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Saka Isau     Iyaloja-General     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Saba Mamman Daniel     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Yusuf Mubarak     Sardauna     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Chikanda     Olatunji Ayeni     Mahe Abdulkadir     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     IFK     Logun     Basit Olatunji     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Afonja Descendants Union     V.O. Abioye     Wahab Agbaje     Kolade Solagberu     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Halidu Danbaba     Oyedepo     Abubakar B.M     Yusuf A. Usman     Asa     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Baba Issa     Ojo Fadumila     Dunmade     Ileloke     BECE     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Tosho Yaqub     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Pius Abioje     David Oyedepo     Hussein Oloyede     Plat Technologies     International Vocational Centre     Bolaji Abdullahi     Kwara Politics     NIRSAL     Bilikis Oladimeji     International Aviation College     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Congress For National Consensus     Pacify Labs     Olusola Saraki     Baruba     Col. Taiwo     TESCOM 2025     AIT Ilorin     Elewu     High Court     Toyin Sanusi     JMK Construction Company Limited     Ilorin Like-Minds     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Kayode Alabi     Olaitan Adefila     Bolaji Aladie     Musa Yeketi     TESCOM     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Pakata Patriots     Alagbado     Sunday Popo-Ola     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Kwara TV     Folorunsho Alao     Gobir Organization Foundation     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Muazam Nayaya     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Owode Market     Wahab Egbewole