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.

Moshood Bakare     Adedipe     Shuaib Olarongbe     Ibrahim Mohammed     Olabode Towoju     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Elelu     IYA ALFA NLA     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     KWATMA     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Sango-UITH Road     Galadima     Valsolar Consultoria     Haliru Yahaya     Salihu S. Yaru     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Tunde Oyawoye     Kwara Hotel     AbdulRauf Keji     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Mohammed Haruna     Goodluck Jonathan     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     GRA     Tunji Arosanyin     John Olajide Adedipe     Saliu Tunde Bello     Durosinlohun Atiku     Photo News     Sam Onile     Lanre Olosunde     Bukola Saraki     Balogun Fulani     Atunwa     Monthly Sanitation     Unicontinental Construction Company     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Dauda Adesola     Bola Tinubu     Olupako Of Share     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Funmilayo Mohammed     Rotimi Atere     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Kayode Yusuf     Ayekale     Moremi High School     Otuka     Seun Bolaji     Rotimi Oyedepo     Saad Omo Iya     20 Billion Bond     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Adedeji Onimago     Wasiu Onidugbe     Kamoru Kadiri     Sheriff Shagaya     Hamid Bobboyi     Akorede     Azeez Salawu     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     YAKOOYO     Charcoal     Dasuki Belgore     Yemi Sanni     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Ghali Muhammed     Babata     Durosinlohun Kawu     Titus Ashaolu     Muhammadu Gobir     Rihanat Ajia    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Hauwa Nuru     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Riskat Opakunle     Modupe Oluwole     Alikinla     Balogun Fulani     Dan Masanin     Solomon Edojah     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     UNILORIN Alumni     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Aliyu Alhassan     IPSAS     Kunbi Titiloye     Woro     Wahab Kunle Shittu     ER-KANG     Ajayi Okasanmi     Babajide Ajayi     KWSUED     Saidu Yaro Musa     Ilorin Like-Minds     Salake     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Budo-Egba     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Offa Grammer School     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Mustapha Akanbi     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Lithium Deposit     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Aliyu Muhammed     Erin-ile     Ilorin     Unicontinental Construction Company     Old Oyo     School Of Nursing     Habeeb Saidu     Afolayan     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Ishola Moses Abiodun     NNPP     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Kola Shittu     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Ishaq Salman     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Akeem Olatunji     Azeez Salawu     Tanke Road     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Gamji Members Association     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     George Innih     Ifelodun     Rachael Obisesan     Gbugbu     NIPR     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Law School Scholarship     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Curfew     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Amusa Bello     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Kwara Basketball Association     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Segun Adeniyi     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Yeketi