Authorities of the Joint Border Patrol Team Sector 3, North Central Zone of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS say they have intercepted five hundred and fifty Pump Action gun cartridges in Adikpo Junction, Benue State. The coordinator of the team, Comptroller Olugboyega Peters who disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State, revealed that the ammunitions were coming from Onitsha in Anambra State and were on the way to Taraba State before they were intercepted in Benue.
Speaking further on feats made by the team, the comptroller stated that forty-nine other seizures were made between August and December, with duty paid value of twenty-nine million naira. These include thousands of jerry cans of petrol seized along the Nigeria-Benin Republic border, seven hundred and fifty-one bags of foreign parboiled rice, used vehicles as well as smuggled used cloths. The coordinator while advising people to desist from smuggling, warned those who want to use this yuletide period to make money by smuggling prohibited items to think twice adding that they will do all it takes to ensure that smuggling activities are stifled and all offenders are brought to book.
Chidozie Chima | September 20, 2024
