Customs Sustains Seizure of Smuggled Poultry in Fourth Week
As the
heightened anti-poultry smuggling operations, code named Operation “Hawk Descend” got into the fourth
week, smugglers of poultry products continued to count their loses as millions
of smuggled imported frozen poultry
products got seized.
2. Statistic
in the fourth (4) week of this operation, showed that frozen poultry products
worth N35,651,458.00 (Thirty Five Million, Six Hundred and fifty One Thousand,
Four Hundred and Fifty Eight Naira Only) were seized. The figure indicate a
sharp increase when compared to the report of week 3 which had Duty Paid Value
of N28,660,717 (Twenty Eight Million, Six Hundred and Sixty Thousand, Seven
Hundred and Seventeen Naira Only).
3. The
seizures which consist of 5,472 (five
thousand, four hundred and seventy five) cartons of frozen poultry product, was
confiscated at Idiroko bush path in Ogun States, Agbeji/Ife axis in Osun State
and Seme axis in lagos State all around the South Western area of the country.
4. Below is
the breakdown of the seizures:
a) Western Marine - 3,221 cartons
b) FOU A - 1,220 cartons
c) Ogun Command -
820 cartons
d) Oyo/Osun - 120 cartons
e) Seme Command -
91 cartons
Total - 5,472
5. While
speaking on the achievements of the four weeks old operations, the
Comptroller-General of Customs Dikko Inde Abdullahi, lamented the use of
commercial vehicles to conceal and transport the banned poultry products. He
called on owners of commercial buses operating in the South Western area to
desist from such act or face the consequences of losing their vehicles and
possibility of a jail term. He however expressed the hope that the re-invigorated
collaboration between the Customs Administrations of Nigeria and Benin Republic
will help to deal decisively with the crime of smuggling from both sides of the
border.
Signed
Joseph Attah
Deputy
Public Relations Officer
For:
Comptroller-General of Customs
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