The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘D’ Headquarters in Bauchi has seized contraband and smuggled items valued at over N110 million within one month.
The Comptroller Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘D’ Headquarters Bauchi, Abubakar Umar made the disclosure on Tuesday during a press briefing.
Umar explained that within the timeframe of one month with which he assumed duty as the comptroller of the unit, the unit has intercepted and seized prohibited and uncustomed goods including “448x 25 Jerry cans (11,200) litres of premium motor spirit, 192 Bales and Two sacks of Second hand clothing, One Hundred and Forty cartons of foreign spaghetti, 125 pairs of desert and jungle boots, 47 bags of Foreign parboiled rice of 50 kg each, and Pangolin scales (9.40)kg.”
He revealed that the “cumulative duty paid value of all the seized items stands at One Hundred and Ten Million, Four Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand, Three Hundred and Fifty Two Naira Only, (N110,499,352).”
Umar emphasised the unit’s commitment to inter-agency collaboration, saying that the seized pangolin scales would be handed over to the relevant agency in accordance with customs standard operating procedures for further action.
He said, “The premium motor spirit will be auctioned to the public and amounts accrued therefrom will be paid into the Federation account.”
