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Customs Cripples Smugglers At Seme Intercepts N19.78m Worth PMS

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Command, said it intercepted 75,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) along the bushes within Seme and Badagry axis.
The Spokesman of the Command, Hussein Abdulahi, a Superintendent of customs who made this known in a statement on behalf of the Command, said the petrol concealed inside sacks and Jerry cans were intercepted during routine patrol by operatives of the Command.
According to him, “the seized petrol has a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N19,785million.
The image-maker of the Command quoted Comptroller Jibo, as saying, “In continuation of our efforts to suppress the smuggling of the petroleum products within the nooks and crannies of the Command, officers and men of the Seme Area Command on a routine patrol along the bushes within Seme and Badagry intercepted another large quantity of petroleum products packaged in sacks and Jerry cans.
“The arrest was made in the early hours of Thursday, September 2022.
“The seized petroleum products were estimated to be around two thousand five hundred (2,500) Jerry cans of thirty litres each equivalent to Seventy-Five thousand (75,000) litres.
“The duty paid value (DPV) is N19,785,000.00 only”, according to the statement.
The Area controller, Comptroller Jibo, warned perpetrators of the illegal activities to stay off Seme Border routes or continue to count heavy losses as his men were determined to frustrate them out of the area.
He recalled that three weeks ago, the Command made a similar arrest of over 119,000 litres of the same petroleum products.
By: Nkpemenyie Mcdominic, Lagos