Border Closure: Customs seizes N500m goods in Kwara

Date: 2020-01-17

The Nigeria Customs Service says it has seized goods worth over N500 million from smugglers across the borders in Kwara from Aug. 20, 2019, to date.

Mr Mohammed Garba, the Joint Border Operation Drill Coordinator in Charge of North Central States, Sector 3 Ilorin, announced this at a news conference on the seizure of contrabands on Thursday in Ilorin.

The coordinator said that the Sector 3 intensified effort had led to evidential records of seizure.

The seizures include 12 trailers of rice, 52 different types of used vehicles and other vehicles used for conveying contraband goods with Duty Paid Value (DPV).

"During the period under review, 204 illegal migrants were repatriated. "They include 100 Nigerians, three Malians and two Chinese.

"We have so far recorded 124 seizures with total DPV of N568,763,380," he said.

The comptroller said that the Federal Government on Aug. 20, 2019, partially closed all land borders for the betterment of the nation's economy, the security of citizens and for our neighbouring countries to abide by ECOWAS Protocols.

"Part of our mandate is to stop fuel supply to 20 kilometres radius to border communities, the mandate which we will implement to latter," he said.

The coordinator also recalled that the Speaker, Kwara House of Assembly, paid a courtesy visit to his office on the scarcity of fuel being experienced at the border Communities.

"We promised to visit all the affected border communities.

"We visited and sensitised the border communities, traditional rulers, rural dwellers, IPMAN and other critical stakeholders on the benefits of the border closure."

Garba said that during the visit, only three trucks carrying petroleum products were found to have genuine documents and did not operate within 20 kilometres radius.

"They were unconditionally released to the owners.

"We want to re-echo this for the umpteenth time that the border closure is not targeted at any individual, group of persons or any community but for the protection of the nation's economy.

"The current Customs administration, under the able leadership of Col. Hammed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) and his management team, has zero-tolerance for corruption," Garba said.

He said that smuggling was a crime and that the Customs would continue to treat those who engage in it as criminals.

"We will continue to police our area of operations in line with the federal government directives on the partial closure of our national borders," he said.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Aliyu Kora-Sabi     MINILS     Innocent Okoye     HICA     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Egbewole     Kale Ayo     Durosinlohun Kawu     Bashir Badawi     Olupako     Abioye Bello     ANCOPPS     KW-GIS     Atiku Abubakar     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Abdulazeez Uthman     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Baruten     Folorunsho Erubu     Mohammed Saidu     Ilorin Curfew     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Fatimoh Lawal     Ramat Oganija     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Lanre Issa Onilu     Fola Consultant     Samari     Moses Adekanye     ER-KANG     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Odolaye Aremu     COEASU     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Obuh     Elewu     John Mayokun Dada     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Suwa-Arabs     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Bayo Lawal     Simeon Ajibola     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Dele Momodu     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Aso Ofi     Umar Danladi Shero     Elerinjare-Ibobo     07039448763     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Babaita     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Saad Belgore     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Oke Sunna     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Yekini Adio     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Bareke     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Toyosi Thomas     Al-Adaby     Yusuf Abubakar     Muhammadu Buhari     Adedipe     Sobi FM     Oloriegbe     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Jelili Yusuf     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Lateef Fagbemi     Isiaka Abdulrazak     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Gbenga Adebayo     Ike Ekweremadu     Makama Of Ilorin     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Abioye Bello     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Olatinwo     Frootify     Laboratory-to-Product     V.O. Abioye     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     All Peoples Party     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Makama Of Kaiama     Oloyede     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Kwara State Government     Centre For Digital Economy     Adesoye     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Awodun     Ilorin Like-Minds     Ibrahim Bio     Demola Banu     Alfa Yahaya Road     Babaloja-General     KWASSIP     Bayo Onimago     Elelu     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Yetunde Balogun     George Innih     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Alimi     Gobirawa     Sulyman Abdulkareem     SWAN     Moses Adekanye     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Lafia Aliyu Korasabi     Kwarareports.com     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Afolayan     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Christopher Odetunde     Sobi     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     General Hospital     Okin Malt     Ridwan Agboola     Saba Mamman Daniel     Offa Poly     Yahaya Muhammad     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Lawan     Oba Abdulrahim     KWSIEC     COVID-19 Palliatives     ASUU     Arandun     Tunji Olawuyi     Fola Consultant     Moro     Elewu     Ojuekun     Oko