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.

Belgore     Adeola Abraham     Share-Tsaragi     General Hospital, Ilorin     Abegunde Goke     Sulaiman Gado     SWAN     Apaokagi     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Fatimat Saliu     Boko Haram     Admiralty Villa     Akanbi-Oke     Imam Gambari     Mamatu Abdullahi     Ope Saraki     Ajase-Ipo     Lanre Olosunde     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Ibrahim Oniye     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     IFK     Sobi FM     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Moshood Mustapha     Allocation     Ayinke Saka     Kwabes     Ilorin     Kuliyan Geri     The Herald     Yusuf Lawal     Henry Olaosebikan     Umar Gunu     Laolu Saraki     Al-Hikmah University     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     CLAY POT     Afolayan     Bukola Ajikobi     NAWOJ     Dankaka     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Abdulkareem Alabi     Olupako Of Share     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Toyin Sanusi     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Labaeka     Ibrahim Orire     Lanre Issa-Onilu     National Broadcasting Commission     Ahman Pategi     Elewu     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Adesoye College     Dairo Kunle Paul     Mahee Abdulkadir     Oni Adebayo     Oke-Kura     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Sango-UITH Road     Idi-Ape     Garba Dogo     NIPOGA     Sa\'adu Gambari     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Olugbense    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Oyawoye     Ethical College     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Isapa     Emir Of Shonga     Abdulfatai Baakini     Yakubu Gobir     Sanusi Abubakar     Suleman Abubakar     Shuaib Olarongbe     Police Commissioner     Haleeman Salman     Kayode Laro     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Odo-Owa     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Elewu     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Pategi     KWSIEC     AGM Professional Services     11th Galadima     Omu Aran     Ekweremadu     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Ayinke Saka     Matthew Babaoye     Ojuekun     Salihu Yahaya     Durbar Festival     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Kassim Babamale     Sa\'adu Salahu     IESA     Baba Issa Awoye     Omoniyi     Haliru Dantoro     NULGE     Kwara Poly     Daud Adeshola     Jawondo     Javed Khan     Babs Iwarere     Baboko Primary School     Iponrin     Vasolar Consultoria     Aso-ofi     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Ojo Isekuse     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Barakat Community Secondary School     KWASIEC     Oba Abdulrahim     Bamidele Aluko     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Monkey Pox     Olawuyi     Olatunde Michaels     Nigeria Customs Service     African Democratic Congress     Olukotun Of Ikotun     United Nigeria Congress Party     Ibrahim Gambari     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Aminu Adisa Logun     Abikan     Ganiyu Abolarin     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Harrison Osauwagboe     Aliyu Muyideen     Ajeigbe