Smuggling: Ogun Customs Intercepts 'Dangote' truck with 600 Bags of Rice



The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), 1 Ogun Area Command, has intercepted an articulated vehicle loaded with 600 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice.

The truck, with the inscription of Dangote Cement Company, used to conceal the contraband, was intercepted along the Ijoun border axis of Ogun State.

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The Customs Area Controller, Peter Kolo, who disclosed this on Wednesday at the monthly press briefing on the activities of NCS, Ogun 1 Area Command, Idiroko, said the truck with its contents was heading to the eastern part of the country.

Kolo said three suspects, including the driver of the vehicle, were arrested, adding that an investigation was ongoing to unravel the people behind the massive smuggling activity.

The Controller disclosed that the command had in March intercepted a truck belonging to the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, used to smuggle contraband goods into the country.

On the seizure of the contraband goods made by the command in the month of April, Kolo said 7,000 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice, equivalent of 12 trailer loads, were seized.

While noting that smuggling of foreign rice was causing catastrophic damage to the federal government’s rice and agricultural policies, the customs controller said various quantities of poultry products, Cannabis Sativa (marijuana), vehicles and other means of conveyance, uses clothing and shoes, used tyres, sugar, tomatoes in retail form, body creams and petroleum products made for export, were also seized during the period under review.

According to him, the cumulative duty paid value for the seizures in April amounts to N189,923,293million.

Kolo, who restated that the FG’s directive on border closure was still subsisting, said a sum of N225,000 was generated from the auction and sales of seized petroleum products and scrap metals, in the month of April.

He, however, declared that men and officers of the command would sustain the onslaught on the smugglers, despite severe attacks being meted out against customs operatives by the smugglers and their promoters.

If only Dangote trucks are being searched, you’ be amazed the kind of contrabands the transport, from hard drugs to weapons, I have witnessed where it was loaded with Weeds bfr

Dangote still dey find money �

What will happen to these bags of rice now?

HOLLY GRAM WTF. DEM POLITHIEFCIANS GON EAT DOES RICE NOW. DAT AINT RITE. DEM NIGGAZ NEED DOES RICE OVER HERE. WTF MAN

Is possible Dangote may not know anything about this; it may be runs that has now gone bad by some bad staffs or drivers.

Check well ooo,e fit turn to cement

sreamsense:
Is possible Dangote may not know anything about this; it may be runs that has now gone bad by some bad staffs or drivers.

Thank God say some sensible people remain
This is a driver and motor boy organized runs
Loading Dangote truck with non Dangote products or staff is a crime in hi s group of companies
Bias and 8 no dey allow us think well

dangote de hustle n dm dey use him name n truck run streets..