Report has it that Officials of the Nigeria Customs Service Zone B strike force in Kaduna state have intercepted contraband goods with a duty paid value of over two-hundred-and-thirty-four million Naira, smuggled into the nation through various illegal routes at the northern borders of the country in the last four months.
This was revealed by the Coordinator of the Force, Aliyu Olorunkona, in Kaduna state in a media chat with newsmen on the operations of the command within the northern region in the last quarter.
Some of the seized items are a tanker containing premium motor spirit, one-thousand-seven-hundred bags of foreign parboiled rice, forty seven cartons of sex enhancer drugs, bags of Fertilizer, Petroleum products amongst others.
The Custom authorities lamented that if allowed into the country, some of the seized goods, could cause severe health hazards, paralyze the local industries and deprieve the government of foreign exchange.
It has also been reported that bandits and other criminals also import fire arms and harmful drugs through these illegally routes.
Mr Olorunkoba, stated that the command will not ease off the pursuit of its mandate of suppressing smuggling activities to the barest minimum, adding that two persons were arrested in connection to the crime but have been granted administrative bail.
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