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.

Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Ashiru     Cornelius Adebayo     Hassan A. Saliu     Toyin Falola     Abatemi-Usman     Sayomi     Ndama Al-hassan     Tunde Oyawoye     Najim Yaasin     Busari Alabi Alausa     Simeon Ajibola     Garba Ado Sanni     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Durbar     Kamoru Kadiri     Omupo     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Patience Jonathan     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Mogaji Aare     Olaitan Buraimoh     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Yoonus Lawal     Yahya Mohammed     Police Commissioner     Abdulkadir Orire     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Ajike People Support Centre     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Adedeji Onimago     07039448763     Otuka     Arinola Lawal     Offa Grammer School     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Moronfoye     Mohammed Lawal     Durosinlohun Kawu     Bolaji Gambari     IHS     Sadiq Buhari     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Facebook     Kola Adesina     Olukotun Of Ikotun     SWAN     Abdullateef Abdussalam     John Dara     Kisira     Gabriel Fashanu     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Ile Arugbo     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     UNIFEMGA     Mumeen Lah     Sulu Gambari     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Abubakar Atiku     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Sam Onile     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Ibrahim Abiodun     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Zaratu Umar     Adesoye College    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kola Olota     Shettima Of Ilorin     Patience Jonathan     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Salake     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     A.O. Belgore     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Pakata     Olabode George Towoju     Abdulmajeed Wahab     CELF     Nupe     Moshood Mustapha     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     United Nigeria Congress Party     Falokun-Oja     Rebecca Bake     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Lawan     Rasheed Jimoh     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Oke-Ode     Durbar Festival     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Kwara Central     University Road     Bolakale Saka     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Pacify Labs     IF-K     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Gobirawa     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     AbdulGafar Tosho     Bank Of Industry     Musa Alhassan Buge     NAWOJ     Tanke Road     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Ijakadi     Balogun Ajikobi     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Adijat Adebiyi     Moremi High School     ENetSuD     Diagnostic Centre     Tsaragi     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Alabi Lawal     Mohammed Saidu     Baba-Isale     Daud Adeshola     Olabimpe Olani     Kwha.gov.ng     Rashidi Yekini     Oba Abdulrahim     Abdulraheem Olesin     Atiku     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Toyin Abdullahi     Boko Haram     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Mohammed Halidu     JAMB     Jawondo     Sidikat Akaje     Micheal Imoudu     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Shettima     FOMWAN     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Toyin Sanusi     Aminu Ado Bayero     Bio Ibrahim