Customs Intercepts 934 Bags Of Rice, Second Hand Cloths, Others (PHOTOS)

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Niger/Kwara/Kogi Area Command on Wednesday said it has seized no fewer than nine hundred and thirty four (934) 50kg bags of imported foreign rice suspected to have been smuggled through the land border in the three states within October.

Customs Area Controller in charge of the three states, Yusuf Abba Kassim made this disclosure while briefing journalists at a press conference held at the headquarters of the command in Minna, Niger State capital.
Kassim, while speaking, added that the command also intercepted twelve (12) bales of second hand clothing, one used Volkswagen Golf, one use Toyota Camry, one used Toyota Avencis (black colour) 1998 model, one used Toyota Rav4 (red colour) 2017 Model and one trailer (Howo) Eighteen (18) Tire Truck loaded with bags of imported foreign rice and sugar.
Kassim said, “These strategic seizures were made in the month of October alone: nine hundred and thirty four (934) 50kg gags of imported foreign Rice suspected to have come in through the land border with a duty paid value of one hundred and sixty million, sixty six thousand seven hundred naira (N160, 066,700).