By; TINA PHINEAS, Yola
The Nigerian Customs Service Adamawa/Taraba Area Command has seized assorted items worth over N13 million.
The area Comptroller, Salisu Abdullahi, who made the disclosure at a press briefing in Yola, Adamawa State Capital, said that the command made seizures of 245 jerry cans of 25 litres each on its way to Cameroon and brought them to the office.
He maintained 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.
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 act.
New Nigerian reports that the seized items include Premium Motor Spirit packed in 643 Jerry cans of 25 liters and three of 200 litres of drums, twenty bags of foreign rice and a Golf wagon with a big constructed fuel tank.
The petrol was auctioned immediately after the press conference and proceed realized will be remitted to the federation account.
