The Area Comptroller of Nigeria Customs
Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone C Owerri, Mohammed Garba, has
said that the Unit, on October 31, intercepted a DAF Truck loaded with
11,315 cartons of imported frozen poultry products with Duty Paid Value
of N108,624,000.00.
This was said to be barely two weeks after he assumed office as the new Comptroller of NCS, FOU, Zone C.
The vehicle with registration number
LND 641 XM was impounded on the Benin axis on the said day and two
suspects arrested. The suspects are currently helping Customs with the
investigations.
Garba said the truck had conveyed the
goods by the novelty simply known as “false bottom method concealment”,
which he said was “criminally fashioned by die-hard smugglers to beat
the authorities.”
He said, “The seized truck was cleverly
partitioned with wood, bolted and knotted as a strategy to avoid being
detected by the Customs officials”.
He said that the inner layer of the
partitioned truck was stockpiled with the contraband goods while the
outer layer of the partitions was carefully arranged to fool the
officers.
Garba, who denounced the continued
indulgence in smuggling by some Nigerians despite the official
sanctions, warned that the Customs would always beat them to their game,
warning that poultry products remain prohibited.
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