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Federal Operations
Unit (FOU), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Zone ‘C’ Owerri, Imo State, has made
a total of 31 seizures of contraband.
The seizures which
include 2 by 20 ft containers filled with printed textile materials totalling
566 bales have a duty paid value (DPV) of N264, 745 million.
Customs Area
Controller (CAC), FOU, Zone C, Victor Dimka, disclosed this at Abia /Imo
Command premises, while briefing newsmen on the achievements recorded by the
command between September and middle of October this year.
Within the period
under review, Dimka, who is a Deputy Comptroller (DC), said a total of 2,811
cartons of refined vegetable oil and 117 bales of second-hand clothing, in
addition to 45 pieces of used tyres, were confiscated by the eagle-eyed men and
officers of the unit.
According to
Dimka, a breakdown of other seizures made by the command include 22 vehicles,
which comprise Lexus jeep, Volkswagen Jet, Nissan Primera, Golf Station Wagon,
Toyota Highlander, Mazda 323 Saloon car among others. Others, he said, are 882
bags of foreign rice, one hundred and forty-seven (147) cartons of furniture
comprising cabinet wardrobes and beds.
Displaying the
seized items to the journalists, Dimka stated that the items in question were
variously impounded on the Aba/Eleme Road, 9th Mile Enugu State, Ngor Okpala
Imo State, as well as Benin-Edo and Port-Harcourt Rivers States axis.
While pledging the
commitment of his officers and men to contain the menace of smuggling of
contraband goods in the country, the Customs Chief pleaded with members of the
public to always supply his men with useful information that can lead to the
arrest of smugglers in the country, assuring them that such useful information
would be treated with the necessary confidentiality they deserve.
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