Customs seize N783m goods in three weeks

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’, announced that it made a number of seizures amounting to over N783m between August 9 and 25, 2017.

The Controller of the zone, Mohammed Garba, disclosed this while conducting journalists round the command’s warehouses where the seized items were kept.

According to him, some of the items seized include 27 different brands of vehicles, ranging from 2007 to 2013 models, all valued at N228.2m.

In addition to frozen poultry, he listed other confiscated items such foreign parboiled rice, Indian hemp, pharmaceutical drugs, used tyres and general merchandise.

Garba said that the unit also impounded three containers with items worth N303.2m, due to what he called false declaration.

UCJ, UNILORIN.