[b][/b]Two consignments of frozen foods worth N68.8m which were intercepted by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), were destroyed on Wednesday November 13.

Speaking to newsmen, Customs Area Comptroller (CAC) Mr. Wale Adeniyi said one of the consignments was concealed as vegetables while the other consignment was allegedly abandoned by the importer at Gate 13 of the airport.

It was gathered that the first consignment containing meat, chicken, turkey and other frozen foods were discovered on South African Airways on November 10, 2019.

He said, “Though, the Airway Bill described the goods as fresh vegetables, but they were rather frozen foods, which are contraband in the country. It became obvious that the importer through his agents has prepared pre-release documentations purporting the imports to be fresh vegetables with the sole intention to evade the import prohibition order.”

Wale Adeniyi further disclosed that the second consignment of 104 cartons which had pork meat, beef, and turkey was abandoned inside four dollies close to Gate 13.

http://igberetvnews.com/1132746/frozen-foods-concealed-vegetables-intercepted-lagos-airport/

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na wa , person that cargo frozen foods , the weight alone , how e go cover am

I don't support importation of frozen foods the kind of chemicals used in preserving these stuffs are not just healthy for the body..we have many poultry farm in the country that deals on fresh frozen foods and very healthy for the body, let's start appreciating our own and stop importing every dam* thing
We sell electronics

Why do people go through this risk of smuggling high amounts of goods like this, especially contrabands?
Genuinely asking??
Why? Almost N70M confiscated

Now customs will pack the goods use am soft for themselves.

The first property custom man go buy na deep freezer

Heaven help Nigeria and our colonial mentality of always consuming foreign goods!!

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Wasted

Chicken barbecue comes to mind!

People will smuggle in poison....then we spend our hard earned money and purchase the disease....wickedness of mankind all for naira and kobo.....some Nigerians won't make heaven

Why do they always destroy seized foods?cant they give them to ophanage or the poor ?I don't know if its done like that anyway,but I think there are better ways of making good use of them, instead of wasting them like that.

If Tinubu was the smuggler, I'm sure we wouldn't even hear anything about anything.
But there's money in The country.

Ole lefri bodi

This smugglers will learn lesson. No wasting of time before destroying their goods like before that it will be collected through corrupt officials.

If i could recall, i think we still have a lot of poor people in this country especially the IDP's. Instead of destroying such amount of edible products, why not just send them to this camps and support their daily needs. I stand to be corrected.

Chicken that we produce in quontom?.

why destroyed these when dey fit give to IDP's/homeless pipu to chop ?

Why destroy it.. It food for God sake.. The northern children in the north who are staving could definitely use it.. I don't really get the logic in destroying it

I really find it hard believing this story.

Pabloosas:

what concern this with frozen food naoooo?

Giving it to the less privileges would have bn better if certified by NAFDAC

Pabloosas:

You never for your life post good thing here on nairaland...

majamajic:
na wa , person that cargo frozen foods , the weight alone , how e go cover am

na the ones they are about to throway for super market and abattoir. Na rich man go still chop am

Onlinealaba:
I don't support importation of frozen foods the kind of chemicals used in preserving these stuffs are not just healthy for the body..we have many poultry farm in the country that deals on fresh frozen foods and very healthy for the body, let's start appreciating our own and stop importing every dam* thing
We sell electronics

If the our own are cheaper, nobody would go through the stress of importing/smuggling. It's a simpu stuv

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Thanks to the swift response.. The idiot is gone