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.

Idofin     Abikan     Kwara State University Of Education     Sadiq Umar     KFA     Ilorin East     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Playing Host     Niyi Ogundiran     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Durosinlohun Atiku     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Apado     Hussein Oloyede     Nigeria Customs Service     Aisha Gobir     Village Alive Development Association     Seun Bolaji     KWASAA     Folorunsho Alao     Kwasu     Omotoso     Abubakar Imam     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Ilorin West     Ahmed Bayero     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Rotimi Oyedepo     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Baba Idris     Twitter     Joseph Offorjama     Abdullahi Biffo     Sunday Otokiti     Roseline Oni Aremu     Kabir Shagaya     Babata     Ganiyu Abolarin     Abraysports FC     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Tope Daramola     Mumeen Lah     Clara Nwachukwu     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Raymond Olaitan     Jani Ibrahim     Kwara 2015     Tsaragi/Share     Babatunde Idiagbon     NULGE     Oya State     Binta Sulyman     Amasa     Buhari     Bilikisu Gambari     Musa Alhassan Buge     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Share-Tsaragi     Olayinka Olaogun     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Ibrahim Abikan     Tsaragi-Share     VADA     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Age AbdulKareem     Albert Ogunsola     Iqra Books     University Road     Ibrahim Labaika     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Adebayo Salami     Shao    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     ITP     Balogun Ajikobi     Michael Nzwekwe     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Kale Belgore     Christopher Ayeni     Shuaib Abdulkadir     KWTV     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Yoruba     Bayo Ajia     Niyi Ogundiran     2023 Elections     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Christopher Odetunde     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Abdulkarim Adisa     Simeon Sayomi     CCEPE     Akorede     GGDSS Pakata     Alaiye     Iliasu     Tanke     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Bola Tinubu     Kwara 2023     Saka Adeyemo     Yusuf Abubakar     Agor Market     JSSCE     Kisra     Saliu Tunde Bello     Yoonus Lawal     Afeyin-Olukuta     Yakubu Dogara     Abdulwaheed Musa     Oro Grammar School     UTME     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Wole Oke     Folorunsho Alao     Amule Elementary School     John Kehinde Salako     Mohammed Abdulahi     IHS     Tunde Yusuf     SARS     Opobiyi     Ilorin Central Mosque     Undergraduate Bursary     Mahee Abdulkadir     Baaziki Sulaiman     Oya State     Village Alive Development Association     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Makama Of Ilorin     Shero     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Kwara Restoration Project     Shade Omoniyi     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Maigidasanma     Rachael Obisesan     Hassan Oyeleke     Al-Hikmah University     Tunji Moronfoye     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Guber Aspirant     Joseph Offorjama     Press Release     Women Radio