The Nigerian Customs Service in the northeastern region of Adamawa/Taraba Area Command has recorded fifteen incidents of seizures of assorted items with a cumulative duty paid value of over thirteen million naira.
At a press briefing in Yola, Adamawa State Capital, the area Comptroller, Salisu Abdullahi, said the seized items include Premium Motor Spirit packed in six hundred and forty-three twenty-five-litre Jerry cans and three times two hundred litres of drums, twenty bags of foreign rice and a golf waggon with a big constructed fuel tank.
He said that despite the subsidy removal on PMS, smuggling of the product from Nigeria to some other African countries persists.
“This is as a result of high fuel demand and higher prices in neighbouring countries like Cameroon, Togo and the Benin Republic, making illicit exportation of these products into these countries highly profitable for the unpatriotic Nigerians to fill the supply gap,” he added.
In the last two weeks, the command made seizures of 245 Jerry Cans of 25 litres each on its way to Cameroon and brought them to the office, which was auctioned immediately after the press briefing, and the proceeds were remitted into the Federation Account accordingly.
The Adamawa/Taraba command, in collaboration with NAFDAC, destroyed some expired and unregistered foreign juice and alcoholic bullet drinks that were seized by its operatives last year.
Comptroller Abdullahi therefore urged the smugglers to forsake economic sabotage and illicit trade into the command frontiers and embrace legitimate business, warning that the command will not relent on its oars until it rids all the borders of this illicit
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