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.

Baruba     Abiodun Oyedepo     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Ibrahim Akaje     Sarkin Malamai     Saidu Yaro Musa     Olam Food Ingredients     Olabode George Towoju     Tunji Oyawoye     Shuaib Jawondo     Opobiyi     SARS     Kolo     Sabi     Col. Adedipe     Post-utme     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Gambari     Kwasu     Erin-ile     Ajase-Ipo     IEDPU     Adamu Atta     Lawal Olohungbebe     Arandun     Jimba Babatunde     Abdulwahab Oba     AGM Professional Services     IDPU     Issa Baba     Kwara State Sports Commission     Cassava Growers\' Association     Dagbalodo     Shuaib Olarongbe     Obasanjo     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Taiwo Joseph     Agbarere     Saeedat Aliyu     Shehu Salau     Kwara United     Harmony Holdings     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Ahmad Lawan     Funmilayo Oniwa     Al-Hikmah University     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     IPSAS     Sadiq Umar     Moshood Bakare     Oniwa     Saka Onimago     Hijaab     Saadu Yusuf     Tsaragi-Share     Saheed Popoola     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Alore     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Congress For National Consensus     Kanu Agabi     Women Radio     Lafiagi     Bashirat Bola Bello     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Olatunde Michaels     Balogin Alanamu     Mahee Abdulkadir     Gbenga Olawepo     LAK Jimoh     Oloye     Omupo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Tunji Moronfoye     Seni Saraki     Sulyman Tejidini     Lafiagi     Otuka     Afonja     Wahab Egbewole     Www.Kwarareports.com     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Ali Ahmad     Amada Jidda     IEDPU     Dele Momodu     Haliru Dantoro     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Baaziki Sulaiman     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Saadu Alanamu     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Tayo Alao     Sardauna     Saka Saadu     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Moses Afolayan     Taofeek Ibraheem     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Kayode Zubair     QuickWin     Tafidan Kaiama     ANCOPPS     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Kwara Consultative Forum     Fatai Olodo     Yahaya Muhammad     Ishola Abdullahi     KwaraLearn     Agboola Babatunde     Labour Party     Kanu Agabi     Taiwo Joseph     Twitter     Ibrahim Akaje     Madawaki     Jide Oyinloye     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     BIR     Valsolar     Balogin Alanamu     Tanke Road     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Temi Kolawole     Lanre Badmus     JAMB     Offa Poly     Isaac Gbenle     Elesie Of Esie     Adamu Atta     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Abubakar Baba     Vasolar Consortium     IFK     Aro Yahaya     Funmilayo Zubair     Flights To Ilorin     Rapheal Ashaolu     Ayobami Akanbi     Mogaji Aare     Bashiru Makama     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Modibbo Kawu     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Shehu Alimi Foundation