Automobile dealers under the aegis of Automobile Dealers Friends Association on Monday protested the sealing of their businesses by the Nigerian Customs Service as a result of a crackdown on cars suspected to have been smuggled through the land borders.
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The customs’ Public Relations Officer, Joseph Attah, said this while reacting to the Service’s leaked memo in the media.
The Controller of the Niger/Kogi Area Command, Yusuf Abba-Kassim, disclosed this on Thursday to newsmen.
Mrs. Nwagboliwe who arrived the country onboard BA083 with passport No. A07994773 at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport had claimed that she was singled out and slammed with Customs Duty payment for one pair of shoes and “a mini boy bag” that should have been allowed to pass freely as personal effects.
The Controller in charge of Adamawa/Taraba Command, Kamardeen Olumoh, who was briefing newsmen on Tuesday on the development, said the suspects were arrested in a warehouse in Yola.
Manga, who revealed this in a statement in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday, said the creation of the Area Command was to boost administrative, convenience, efficiency and revenue generation of the Service, adding that the move was also in line with the directive of the Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Colonel Hameed Ali.
Ali announced the interception during a joint news conference with his counterpart from the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mohammed Babandede, in Abuja on Monday.
This is even as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, is expected to appear the Joint National Assembly Committee on Finance to defend the N305 exchange rate for the 2020 budget.
The Comptroller-General of Customs Strike Force Zone ‘A’ has intercepted 2,494 bags of 50Kg parboiled rice, 1288 jerrycans of vegetable oil and assorted cars with Duty Paid Value of N47million in one month.
The Nigeria Customs Service, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and Department for Petroleum Resources have resolved to set up joint committee to address smuggling of petroleum products to neighbouring countries.
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, Mbo LGA in Akwa Ibom, says it has arrested three suspects and seized 416 bags of contraband rice brought in from the Republic of Cameroon.
Two air force men sustained serious injuries during a scuffle with customs officials at the Gbaji Checkpoint in Badagry, near Lagos on Thursday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
As part of its fight against smuggling activities around border areas of Ogun State, the state command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted over 1.8 tons of cannabis sativa, popularly known as Indian hemp.
The Area Controller of the zone, Mohammed Sarkin Kebbi, who conducted newsmen round the seized items on Friday in Kaduna, said 650 bags of the smuggled rice covered by onions was uncovered in the truck along Sokoto-Gusau axis on Thursday night.
The Controller F.O.U. Zone D, Comptroller Peters Olugboyega, made the disclosure at a news conference in Bauchi on Thursday.
Shittu made the assertion during a Stakeholders Conference organised by NIPOST on Friday in Lagos.
Speaking during the official handing over to his successor, Mohammed Garba, Aliyu said that the command witnessed unprecedented increase in revenue and seizures in the last 18 months.
The Nigeria Customs Service says it has generated N556.7 billion revenue from January to June as against N486.7 billion in the same period in 2017.
Decorating the officers on Wednesday, the Area Comptroller, Alhaji Nasir Ahmad, urged the officers to be more dedicated and ensure steadfastness on their respective duties to justify their promotion.
Olusemire Kayode, the Customs Area Comptroller of Kaduna/Katsina Command, made the disclosure at a news conference in Katsina.