Abdullahi Kirawa, a Deputy Comptroller of Customs and National Coordinator, Comptroller General Strike Force, CGC SF, has no sympathy for smugglers. Kirawa, who believes there was no difference between smugglers and armed robbers as the two set of criminals were used to hard drugs and weapons to carry out their nefarious activities.

This is evident going by the number of officers who had been killed in different parts of the country for daring to challenge them for smuggling parboiled rice and other prohibited goods from Republic of Benin and other neighbouring countries into the Nigeria market. Kirawa, the CGC National Coordinator of the Strike Force may have mobilised members of the team in the south west, north central, north west , north east and the south east to be on the alert to curtail the activities of the smugglers to create a condusive environment for Nigerian rice farmers and manufacturers to thrive .

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Source: http://www.thevaluenews.com.ng/maritime/smugglers-are-worse-than-armed-robbers-kirawa/

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They are worse that armed robbers I tell you. E you see them on the run the can kill you. And still be moving

Without them bag of rice should have risen to 30.000 naira per bag, though it concerns you not ones you see importers to extort.