Customs impounds vehicle,
contrabands
By TOKUNBO OLOKE
Thursday, March 20, 2008
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Customs officers
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Customs operatives attached to the Federal Operations Unit
Zone ‘C’ have impounded some vehicles that were
conveying some contraband goods from a neighbouring country
into Nigeria.
Some of the impounded vehicles were said to belong to the
local, state and federal governments, Flourmills Limited,
a popular transport company and a pick-up van belonging to
one of the newspaper companies.
The prohibited items included textile materials, furniture,
tyres, poultry products and apples.
It was also discovered that some of the contraband items were
concealed in dutiable goods while they made under payments
on dutiable goods like truck.
Expressing disappointment over the type of vehicles and trucks
involved in the aiding of smuggling of contrabands into the
country, the Customs Area Comptroller, Zone ‘C,’
Mr. Hussein Kangiwa, said despite his regular meetings with
luxury bus operators, they still use their buses to convey
contraband goods.
He, therefore, implored his men and officers not to be intimidated
by smugglers and to continue to impound any vehicle suspected
to be carrying contraband goods.
“I said before that we have adopted a new strategy of
combating smuggling in the zone this year and that is why
I tagged this year, ‘No mercy’ for the smugglers,”
he added.
He explained that the priority of the zone was to combat smuggling
in all its ramifications
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