Controller of the Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Victor Dimka, said yesterday that it seized 2,131 bags of rice loaded in 12 trucks with a duty paid value of N23.9million at Ere creeks, a border town between Lagos and Ogun was the highest made in a single operation in the history of the command.
He understood that the smuggled rice were stocked in an uncompleted building when his men got the information and stormed the Ere creek and ascribed the seizure to the sharing of synchronized and credible information among officers of the command and the support of the Comptroller General of Customs who he said has declared zero tolerance for smuggling.
“It was discovered through the database of the command that the remarkable feat of this magnitude is the first of its kind in recent times that will go down memory lane as a record that will not be easily forgotten. He said the resolve by the smugglers to use the waterways was because the Seme border road is well fortified against smuggling activities by his officers and men”
Dimka commanded the enforcement unit of the command for their unparalleled performance even as he asked them to increase efforts in the defeat of smuggling activities along the border. He also said that investigation was ongoing to unmask the rice smugglers.
He warned that the command will continue to work round the clock to degrade all smuggling activities across the frontier as it has all the necessary logistics and support to combat smuggling activities at the border.
