Customs Seizes 86 Vehicles In PH, Others

A total of 86 vehicles
comprising 51 cars, 25 jeeps and 10 trucks have been seized by the Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘C’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).
The seizures with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N674,929,278.00 were made in Port Harcourt, Benin, Agbor, Asaba, Owerri, Enugu and Calabar.
The Customs Area Controller of the Owerri, Imo State based unit, Victor Dimka, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the unit’s half year performance 2014 in Benin, Edo State recently.
Dimka said the unit also seized a truck carrying more than 1,200 cartons of foreign soap as well as another truck loaded with bags of imported rice.
He said that although some of the drivers of the seized vehicles are still at large, but that all efforts are being intensified to track them down to face the full wrath of the law, in line with the renewed efforts of the Nigeria customs services to drastically reduce smuggling to the bearest minimum in the country.
He said some of these seized vehicles were taken as abandoned seizures because their drivers absconded at the point of arrest, promising that they will be fished out through service intelligent network and subject them to the full weight of the law.”
The controller frowned that people are bent on circumventing the new auto mobile policy of the federal government by smuggling in vehicles, adding that most of the smugglers who ran away when their vehicles are being seized would be traced through the information ontheir fake registration papers.
Dimka reiterated that Nigeria Customs Service is better equipped to tackle such challenges today, and that it is instructive that the unit seized such vehicles within the first half of the year.