Nigeria
Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’, says that it made a number
of seizures amounting to over N783million between 9th and 25th
of August, 2017.
The
Controller of the zone, Mohammed Garba, disclosed this while conducting
journalists round the command’s warehouses where the seized items were kept.
According
to him, some of the items seized include 27 different brands of vehicles,
ranging from 2007 to 2013 models, all valued at N228.2million.
In
addition to frozen poultry, he listed other confiscated items such foreign
parboiled rice, Indian hemp, pharmaceutical drugs, used tyres and general
merchandise.
Garba
said that the unit also impounded three containers with items worth N303.2m,
due to what he called false declaration.
He
added that the unit recovered N252.1m from duty payments and demand notices on
general goods from importers who allegedly tried to outsmart officers at
seaports, airports and border stations through wrong classification, transfer
of value and short-change in duty payments meant for the Federal Government.
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