OGUN CUSTOMS INTERCEPTS 2018 SUV, OTHERS

February 19, 2018

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In what could be described as the seizure of the month, the Ogun State Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service says it recovered a 2018 model Range Rover SUV with a duty paid valued at over 52million naira alongside 13 smuggled used vehicles within the last one week.

The Controller of the command, Sani Madugu, made this known to newsmen at the Idiroko border office of the command.

Narrating how the SUV was recovered, Madugu said the operatives of the command intercepted the jeep along one of the smugglers’ routes around Ifo in Ifo Local Government Area of the state.

He said the smugglers abandoned the vehicle and fled when they realised the Customs operatives had already closed in on them.

Apart from the 13 impounded vehicles, Madugu said other seizures made from smugglers within the period were 1,168 bags of 50kg foreign rice, 221 kegs of vegetable oil, five sacks of second-hand shoes, and two sacks of second-hand bags.

He added that 12 additional vehicles and 21 motorcycles used as means of conveyance of the bags of rice were also seized.

The Customs boss put the combined duty payable value of all the seizures at N153.86m.