Customs Unit Gears Up Against Smugglers

The Agbara Unit of the Nigerian Customs Service (NSC),  federal Operations Zone “A”, has beefed up its security operations in order to tighten all loopholes against smugglers.
The officer-in-charge of the unit, Assistant Comptroller Bewaji Isaac Olufemi who made this known while addressing Officers and men of the unit recently charged them to remain vigilant and ensure that no single smuggled item was allowed to leak into the Nigerian Market through the Seme-Badagry-Mile 2 routes of the zone.
Olufemi said the units should continue to raise the standard of its operations, in order to reciprocate the giant strides of the NCS management in terms of motivation, remuneration, capacity building, training and retraining among others, adding that, “we are therefore under serious obligation to tackle the issues of smuggling particularly rice and poultry products to its logical conclusion”.
On allegation of compromising, the customs Chief retorted “would you be talking about these seizures if our men had compromised? Will smugglers allow you take money from them and watch you turn around to seize their goods?
The Tide gathered that the achievements were a pointer to the fact that the Nigerian Customs Service is totally committed to the prosecution of the war against smuggling through the Federal Operations unit zone “A” and Customs commands saddled with the responsibility.
It was also gathered that the unit, between February and April 2014, made various seizures of contraband goods with an undisclosed duty value. The seized items include rice, frozen poultry, groundnut oil, shoes, bags and toiletries.