659 bags of foreign rice, petroleum products seized in Kwara

Date: 2019-09-12

Special task force against smuggling at the weekend said that it has intercepted a total number of 600 units of 250-litre drums of petroleum products Chikanda border town in Baruten local government area of Kwara state.

The taskforce said the products were about to be smuggled outside the country.

He also said that a large number of empty drums of petroleum products were seized in the operation.

The taskforce comprises men of the Nigeria Customs Service, Army, Directorate of the State Service (DSS), Police, Immigration, Air force and the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA).

The smuggled items worth billions of naira, were seized in the last one month of operations.

Assistant Comptroller of Customs Service Aminu Dahiru told reporters in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, saying that 659 bags of suspected foreign rice, 32 empty sacks of foreign rice and sealing machine were also seized from a warehouse in Ilorin.

He added that other items intercepted include petroleum products, cars, fairly used clothing, hard drugs and food items were intercepted along Nigeria border towns and market places in Kwara, Niger, and Benue.

He also said that the joint border operation drill, code named, Ex-swift operation, was carried out in four zones of Port Harcourt, Lagos, Ilorin and Katsina, with the aim of guarding Nigeria border lines against smuggling and to ensure industrial growth, promote agriculture and improve national security.

He lamented that the country had become a dumping ground for all imported items, saying that local production and development had suffered.

The assistant comptroller general in charge of enforcement, investigation and inspection at the national headquarters also led the north central zone of the operation, said that smugging had gone for too long in the country, adding that importation of small arms and ammunition had made the country unsecured, while use of second hand clothing had negative health effect in many communicable diseases.

He called on Nigerians to be united against smuggling and cooperate with law enforcement agents in that regard, saying that smuggling is stealing from common wealth of the nation and makes people lazy.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ilorin Emirate     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Mohammed Ibrahim     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     GAMA     Mike Omotosho     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Saheed Akinwumi     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Al-Ilory     Adesoye College     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Owo Arugbo     Tayo Alao     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Olam Food Ingredients     AbdulHamid Adi     Fatai Olodo     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     MATTA Girls Foundation     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Gambari     Ilorin Durbar     Fola Consultant     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     GRA     Ijagbo Health Centre     Ibrahim Abiodun     Guber Aspirant     Sa\'adu Salau     Radio Kwara     Stephen Fasakin     SSUCOEN     Sarah Jubril     Tunji Olawuyi     Plat Technologies Limited     Saka Isau     Demola Banu     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Hijab     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Oba Abdulraheem     Azeez Salawu     Lola Ashiru     General Hospital     Ashiru     Funke Adedoyin     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Iliasu     Gani Saadu     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Sulyman Tejidini     Ajikobi     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Bayo Ajia     Mumeen Lah     Royal FM     Monthly Sanitation     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Kale Ayo     Yaman     Bamidele Aluko     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Halimat Yusuf     Radio SBS     Umar Sanda Yusuf    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Risikat Lawal     Makama Of Kaiama     National Democratic Congress     Quareeb     Bond     SUBEB     Kwara TV     Patigi Regatta     3MTT     Ogidi-Oloje     National Pilot     Yakubu Shaaba     Dorcas Afeniforo     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Amina El-Imam     Memunat Monsuma     COVID     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Bello Oyedepo     Tunji Folami     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Dauda Adesola     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Apaokagi     Moses Salami     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Rasheed Jimoh     Tunji Ajanaku     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Valsolar Consortium     Saka Keji     Kale Ayo     Minister     Ramat Oganija     Sherif Sagaya     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Abdulazeez Arowona     11th Galadima     IESA     Abubakar Aliagan     Ahmad Lawan     Okin Group     Government House     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Abioye Bello     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Kannike     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Baruba     AbdulRahman Saad     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Adamu Attah     Gurei     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Oba Of Jebba     Radio Kwara     Abubakar B.M     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Maigidasanma     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Rex Olawoye     Muritala Olarewaju     IDPU     Doyin Awoyale     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Seed Technologies     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     KWSIEC     HICA     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Oba-Solagberu