The Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘C’, Owerri, Imo State of the Nigeria Customs Service said it has intercepted a truck with 2,257 cartons of assorted frozen poultry products worth N21.61 million.
The Area Comptroller of the FOU Zone ‘C’, Victor Dimka, stated this in a statement on Thursday in Owerri.
Dimka said the truck was carrying 1 x 25 ft container, with contraband poultry products made up of turkey, chicken and gizzards.
The comptroller said the truck, with Reg. No. UBJ 41 XA, was intercepted along Okada-Ekiadoro Benin Expressway through an intelligence report.
He said that his men apprehended the truck with the driver, Friday Julius, who would soon be arraigned in court.
Dimka said that the smuggled poultry products were concealed with 15 pieces of empty cartons of medium sized chest freezer cleverly packed in three rows.
He said that the seizures was made on December 23 and destroyed on December 24.
Dimka said that the customs services would not rest on its oars until smuggling was drastically brought to a minimal level.
“Consumption of such prohibited foreign poultry which are preserved with dangerous chemicals may have contributed to kidney and other related sickness to human beings,” he said.
Dimka lauded the effort of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko, and his management team for their immeasurable support in the fight against smuggling in the nation.
The FOU Zone ‘C’ comptroller appealed to Nigerians to resist the temptation of consuming imported poultry products.
He said that customs would sustain the momentum of curbing the activities of the smugglers as long as they continued to engage in the illicit business.
Dimka, therefore, warned all the smugglers and would-be smugglers to relocate from the zone or face the wrath of the customs in the zone.
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