By Victor Babayemi
The Nigeria Customs Service, Kwara Area Command, says it has intercepted contraband goods smuggled into the country through different border communities in the state.
The Area Controller of the command, Deputy Comptroller, Najeem Ogunbiyi who disclosed this at a media briefing in Ilorin explained that the contraband items worth over four hundred million naira.
He stated that the command would no longer serve as a safe haven for illegal trade.
The Deputy Comptroller explained that seizures clearly demonstrate the renewed operational strategy of the service, anchored on intelligence gathering, coordinated patrols and strategic deployment of personnel across identified smuggling corridors.
He assured that the command remains committed to transparency and accountability.
Items displayed included five units of second-hand vehicles, sixty sacks of second-hand clothing, two hundred and twenty units of used compressors and fifteen pieces of used tyres.
Others are three hundred and seventeen jerry cans of petrol, one thousand, one hundred and seven bags of 50-kilogram parboiled rice and one hundred and twenty sacks of illegally mined lithium ore.
Edited by Azeezat Hambali and Kalu Idika
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