imsuboi:
Where's that brainless dullard?

He's still basking in the euphoria of winning an election.

Even olodos do celebrate victory na.

#babaonechance.

G

but i think the government can but them seized textile to better use than destroying the ozon layer.

Beremx:
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?

yes u are right.

Did dey say burn? Dats utterly preposterous. There r better remedies than dat

Can't these materials be recycled. Everything is always meant for destruction 9ja.

Pls Tell dem. Nigerian mentality baffles me.

Burning such a huge quantity of materials would invariably affect the ozone layer.. I wonder if these so called custom men are educated.

Hmmmm.....that's change!

Eugenedimgba:
Burning such will cause untold hardship to those involved and affect the climate too....imagine burning over 300billion naira worth of textiles in the open...give them back there stocks NCS.You people that normally auction cars on Facebook nko?

how many cars have u bot from customs on face book?

Beremx:
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?

a stronger deterrent is needed. The entire smmugling chain, including customs and government officials who are accomplices should be prosecuted. They are amongst d key reasons Nigeria's diversification has failed

Thatz a whole lot of money over there,wanting to be burnt & capable of helping not less than 20,000,000 Nigerian graduates through an SME loan scheme.

This has been going on in Kano for years.

Government bans importation of textile materials through Nigerian ports but for some strange reasons the rules were lax up north and they ended up having the biggest textile market in Kano through same importation.

Majority of textile traders in other parts of the country source from there , especially Ibadan (alakia)and Lagos.

They should have done this years back, otherwise look the other way in other regions like they have done for years in Kano.

kingofdemons:

am in love with you
happy Sunday

pls how can I upload my pic?

Nigeria Customes don start again oo, as if they are doing their job. I know say na more money them need. and even if the government order them to burn the goods, na their real market go start.




do u think they will burn the goods? for were. dey go still smuggle am.go sell am, come carry awka ochie burn for una. lol, na today. we know them well well.

Onyejiuwaokoh:
You should go to Ekiti and join them in mass exodus to Aba and Onitsha to get brain to work.

atleast na work not BOMBINGs.
Hardwork pays not suicide bombing.
Tell ur people to embrase modernization.... We r in a civilised clime....
Never again shud we breed almajiris

Beremx:
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?

Exactly my thought!

kettykings:
Auction it and not burn it fools

The word 'fools' is too strong to use in this context. You can simply give your advice to the authorities as a well-meaning nigerian without being indecent.

Destroyers

kettykings:
Auction it and not burn it fools

I support you, the fuel marketers claim govt own them 200billion, federal govt had to borrow money to pay workers and this stupid customs officer wants to burn 315billion let govt retire the man

y is customs dragin dia foot? D law must take its cause,weda its #1 or #1b, d good of over 170 million people superceds d profits of a few dishonest traders.D law is d law no sentiments.

only when the smugglers refuse to pay the amount requested Nai we dey hear news like this .hmmmm..nigerian custom, if they had paid the amount you requested, would you have taken this to the media? ....well,smuggling is BAD

Reselling or donating as some suggested here beats the aim of sanitizing the economy. It should be burnt that's how seized contraband goods are treated the world over! Inferior materials should not be allowed to circulate all in the name of helping the needy, if it were adulterated drugs or car parts would you all suggest it be donated? Simply because its a whooping sum to set ablaze? The constitution states that seized contraband goods should be burnt!! No matter the cost involved! let the law be reviewed first to allow some "pass" based on magnitude or relevance to the benefit of the society! Till then all must be burnt.

We ve got to rethink this burn burn culture.

We burn armed robbers in jungle justice.
We burn gas resources in gas flaring
We burn smuggled poultry products and rice
Yet we are ravaged by poverty.

How come we don't get to know the final treatment given to hard drugs, Igbo, coke etc intercepted from smugglers at the airports and on the roads?

It is reasonable to burn smuggled goods if and only if they are expired drugs and food items that would naturally endanger the consumers like DOra did in the good old days of nafdac.

Even if these smuggled textile products cost just N100, it has impacted negatively on the economy ab initio abi did the importers not access forex locally for the transactions with the additional pressure of such on our weakened value of the naira against the dollar?

There is need to rethink this burn burn thing as it has yet again proven not to be having the desired effect of deterrence.

If the customs were doing their job well, how could such textile materials worth billions of naira be smuggled into this country without their knowledge? I smell something fishy here.

bigiyaro:
how many cars have u bot from customs on face book?

only a mad man will fall for such Facebook scams...

Beremx:
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?

I wish dey had brain like U..

You guys say a lot of nonsense and u think you are making sense. Do u no what civilised countries do to contraband. I was watching a programme on tv. The one I watched, they burn contrabands seized by people at the airport. They don't even allow fake shoes and bags. There is a man there who specialises in distinguishing between fake materials and original. A Chinese man brought in leather LV belts. He said they were for his family. The patrol guy said how can your family need dozens of leather belt . Later they found out the Chinese man wanted to sell it. If u see forensic untop trying to distinguish between a fake and original LV belt. This particular border patrol was in Australia. Do u people not realise that China is spoiling the Nigerian market wiv fake products aided by Nigerians. Seems u have not seen fake China beads. Coral beads and the likes. Do u no we have China kind of Ankara, lace, tye and dye. This things are done right here in Nigeria why should China be Doing fake of it and importing it to Nigeria.. This people are spoiling our market. This are the people killing our youths indirectly. You are using China product made by Chinese people thereby developing their own economy and Someone here is talking of giving them to charity. No be only charity, na blessing! They should be burnt and both the foreigners and Nigerians involved should be paraded and sent to jail.

Nigeria and the habit of waste..

Why burn products worth 315 billion? almost 3 times the amount to be spent on the construction of the second Niger bridge?

Instead of burning, why not fine the importers to a tune of like 100 billion and let's see how they will be able to sell the products profitably with a lot of competition from local producers..

Beremx:
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?

Abiiiiiiiiiiiiii. How come they want to burn the materials? Will they say that the were poisonous substance again that harm human beings? In fact, this government is something else. The NCS dully collected monies from these people but are now conniving with textile producers here who must have paid them to do what they are now singing.

Go to the borders, the same frozen foods confiscated by these NCS officials which they claim to burn, 80% of them end up in their wife's shops.These officials are richer than a state in Nigeria.