Nigeria Custom Service Seized goods worth N71,287,056 in Kebbi State.
From Ahmadu Baba Idris
Birnin Kebbi
The Kebbi State Customs Command has recorded 17 seizures that worth N71, 287,056 of the duty paid value in one month.
Addressing Journalist in Kebbi the Command Headquarters on Friday, the controller Dr. Ben Oramalugo (FCIA, FNIM) said that the seizures was between 15th April to 15th May 2023, adding that the arrest were made through Bunza Town to Maje Axis in border area.
Dr. Ben explained further that the effort was made through stop and search, saying that the officers were able to intercepted a truck load of donkeys skins and meat along kamba border axis.
‘during conveying it to the command our officers were attacked by some unscrupulous elements from Bunza village which they broke the windscreen of the two patrol vehicles belonging to the command” he said.
He added that other items seized are Volvo truck (6 tyres) fully loaded with 212 big sized sack and 202 small sized sacks of Donkey meat/skins.
Others are 4 used vehicles comprising 2 Toyota camry 2013 and 2 used Honda jazz 2005, 55 bales of secondhand clothes, 4925 liters of PMS while 13 bags of foreign parboiled rice, 5 kegs of vegetable oil and 1 blue Volvo truck 6 tyers and 1 Toyota corolla Ash as means of conveyance among others.
“this command has steadily continue to record a boost in one of our core mandates of revenue generation in the month of April we were able to generate a sum of one hundred and twenty seven millions, three hundred and sixty four thousand, one hundred Naira (N127, 364100)” he said.
