Customs Confiscate illicit goods worth N84m in Kebbi
Kebbi State Command of Nigeria Customs Service has said that within one month of aggressive operations under Comptroller Chidi Chukwumeziri.N. has generated revenue of thirteen million nairas and seized contraband goods with a duty paid value of eighty-four million nairas within just one month in charge.
Speaking on Thursday at the Command in Birnin Kebbi, the state Customs chief added that he alongside sister agencies in seamless operations assisted by DSS, NPF, NIS, NA, NAFDAC, and NDLEA seized and destroyed guns, fake drugs, and other dangerous and prohibited items ” we didn’t do it just for our children alone but for the safety of Nigerians”.
He noted that under extant laws of Nigeria Customs, the Command also seized foreign rice, bales of second-hand clothes, 20 cartoons of light cigarettes, and thirteenth thousand liters of petrol, otherwise known as a premium motor spirit, among other illicit items being brought in or trying to be smuggled out of the country.
Mister Chidi pledged to sustain the confidence reposed in him by the Comptroller General of Customs, whom he said found him worthy of the job” I promised my predecessor, mister Iheanacho, that I would build on his legacies of allowing lawful trades at our border and is what I am doing today he said. ”
While commending management staff and field officers of Kebbi Command of Nigeria Customs Service, he said the existing synergy between the Command bore fruits as it aided the success of the operations, which led to hitch-free seizures despite the risk of curtailing smuggling at our borders in Kebbi state.
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