Customs seizes N68.3m goods, vehicles

Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘B’ Kaduna, yesterday disclosed that it made seizures with Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N68,363,700 in January.
The Comptroller in charge of the zone, Mustafa Sarkin Kebbi, made the disclosure at the FOU Zone ‘B’ Headquarters in Kaduna yesterday.
He named some of the items seized as 1,412 bags of ‘perboiled’ rice, 40 vehicles including Tokunbos and other types of vehicles used for conveying the seized goods, as well as 65 cartons of spaghetti.
Others include 111 jerry-cans of vegetable oil, 46 bales of second-hand clothing, 333 pieces of used tyres and other sundry items.
The zone comprises Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Niger, Kwara, and Kogi states as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Comptroller, Kebbi, said the FOU would continue to be proactive in the discharge of her duties against all forms of smuggling of prohibited items, until the menace was brought to its barest minimum in the zone and by extension in the country.