Customs In Kaduna Makes 305.7 Million Seizures In Two Months
By Abimbola Abdullahi
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘B’ Kaduna has made a total of 130 Seizures of different items at various locations in the Zone between 1st January and 28th February 2023.
The total Duty Paid Value (DPV), of the seized items was estimated at N305.7 million, according to the Controller of the Unit, Comptroller Musa Ibrahim Jalo.
Jalo, in a statement, said the items include, nine units of used vehicles, two units of means of conveyance, 724 bags of foreign rice (50kg each), six cartons of foreign machetes, 163 jerrycans of vegetable oil (25 litres each), and 646 cartons of foreign spaghetti and macaroni.
Other seized items are 90 bales of foreign secondhand clothing, 569 packs of foreign unregistered pharmaceutical products, 119 packs of unregistered tramadol, and tramaking 225mg, 17 sacks of foreign secondhand shoes, seven cartons of foreign cigarettes, 147 pieces of foreign jack knives, 50 cartons of foreign soap and 635 kegs of premium motor spirit (25 Litres each).
The seized items were arrested in contravention of the Federal Government policies regarding imports and exports and were deposited at various Customs Formations in the Zone.
Jalo said his team has stepped up on the fight against smuggling across the border areas to make more arrests and cause financial loss to the smugglers.
The comptroller reiterated the commitment of the Operatives of the Unit to their renewed efforts in the fight against smugglers.
He called on the communities around the border areas to provide useful information that will assist the unit in achieving its mandate and also consider the operatives of the service as implementers of the Federal Government fiscal policies that are meant to improve and protect our industries thereby creating employments and boosting the economy of the country.
