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Customs Impounds Three Containers Of 600 Live Snakes, Hairy Frogs, Others In Calabar
By Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi - July 27, 2017




BEVERLY HILLS, July 26, (THEWILL) – Three consignments filled with 140 species of snakes, as well as 600 other animals, comprising geckos, millipedes, hairy frogs and spiders,
imported into Nigeria, with a market value of N6.9 million, have been intercepted in Calabar, the Cross River capital.

This was disclosed on Wednesday by Nigeria Customs’ Area Comptroller in charge of Calabar Free Trade Zone, Cross River and Akwa Ibom Command, Mrs. Nanbyen Burromvyat, who said the items were imported from Cameroon but intercepted by Customs officers on July 24, 2017, upon arrival at the NIWA jetty.

Burromvyat said the consignments, which were Lagos-bound, were prohibited items, under Schedule 3 of the Revised Import Prohibition List (Trade) in the Common External Tariff.

A list of the items contained in the packaging list had snakes such as Atheris squamigera, Bitis gobanica, Dasypeltis ssp, Boiga pulverinata, among others, while the geckos were Hemidactylus frenatus and Hemidactylus fasciatus.

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