By Uthman Baba Sirajdeen, Minna
The Nigeria Customs Niger/Kogi Area Command Generates Over N60.6m from seized contraband goods in the month of November.
The command comptroller Mr Busayo Kadejo disclosed in Minna.
Kadejo said N56.6m of the amount was from the sale of PMS loaded in jerry-cans that is being smuggled in a truck while Demand Notices DN generated over N10m.
He said the achievement was as a result of the deployment of ” massive intelligence and the respect of our rules of engagements” in addition to the support given the Command by the Comptroller General by way of provision of utility vehicles to the Command.
Kadejo said during the operations carried out by the Command “no casualty” was recorded .
He sound a note of warning to all smugglers and criminal elements in the command to either desist or relocated from the zone as they will surely be tracked down and dealt with according to the laws of the country, no matter how highly placed tin the society .
“Our job is to implement Federal Government’s fiscal policies, we are committed to achieving’ that and are determined to frontally confront smugglers and all other economic saboteurs whose antics we will always discover and continue to make arrests, seizures and cripple their operations” . He said
Kadejo reminded Nigerians that the Federal Government’s policy on the closure of border is still in force in Babana.
Early in the year the Command seized 11 exotic cars and other vehicles smuggled into the country flying Diplomatic Vehicle Registration Number Plates and compressed cannabis sativa with street value of N 20.6 Million.
