Customs Impound Illegally Imported Items Worth N145 Million

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone “C”, Owerri, Imo State has confiscated illegally imported items with an overall Duty Paid Value of N145,165,705.

The Customs Area Controller of the zone, Mr. Haruna Mamudu, said the seizures occurred on the Benin expressway, Aba-Eleme- Port Harcourt road and the Aba-Eleme axis.

Mamudu, who spoke with newsmen in Owerri, said that the seizures made were 1,500 cartons of poultry products, (concealed with scaffolding iron, big drums and wheel barrows) with a DPV of N21,000,000 and a truck load of 156 jumbo bales of second hand clothing with a DPV of N26,892,000.

“Also impounded was a truck load of fake and unregistered medicaments made up of 190 cartons of Tremadol, 10 sodium laury/sulphate, 30 bags of potassium chloride, 10 bags of fatty alcohol and 39 bags of sodium citrate with a DPV of N87,228,105.”

Others, according to him, are 1,700 pairs of shoes with a DPV of N2,778,000, 115 pieces of used tyres with DPV of N624,000 and assorted foreign soap/cosmetic with DPV of N6,573,600.”

He however assured that, the NCS would continue to ensure zero tolerance for corruption as has been enunciated by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd.).

Mamudu,  said the NCS would apply strict measures to block all areas of leakages to meet up with its revenue target, and also told members of the custom service to be bucle up so as to meet up with the requirements of the current administration.