The Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS) has re-stated its
determination to apprehend smugglers, wherever they carry out
their illicit business.
Area Controller of NCS, Federal Operations Unit, Zone C, Owerri,
Victor David Dimka, made the
declaration while briefing newsmen on the
latest seizures recorded by his men barely six days after the unit took
delivery of 20 new patrol vehicles supplied by the Comptroller General,
NCS, Abdullahi Dikko Inde, to boost operations.
The seizures, comprising 1,500 cartons of frozen chicken, turkey and
the vehicles conveying them, were impounded in the Warri-Owerri axis
with a duty paid value of N16.2 million, while the smugglers would soon
be charged to court.
“The items, frozen with dangerous chemicals, are injurious and
harmful for human consumption and quite detrimental to the nation’s
economy; people should avoid it because it is cheap and contaminated and
adversely affects the kidney, if consumed,” he said.
Dimka, who also displayed other items seized by his men, including
4,554 bales of second-hand clothes with a DPV of N43.5million and
vehicles confiscated in the Eleme-Owerri axis within the week, wondered
why some individuals had remained adamant and unrepentant in the act of
smuggling despite the implication and consequences of their action if
arrested and the attendant economic loss and wastage of their products
within the twinkle of an eye.
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