Kwara state command of Nigerian Customs Service
(NCS) has seized forty weight sacks of 3,593kg of
Cannabis Saliva popularly called Marijuana worth
N448M and other illegal items along with Bukuru
town in Baruten local government council area of Kwara state.
The State Controller of the Nigeria Customs Service,
Mr. Hussain Ahmed disclosed this to journalists in
Ilorin on Wednesday at the command’s premises in
Ilorin while speaking on the activities of the
command in the past four months. He said that the seizure was achieved following
intelligence information from the good people of
the state urging for more of such credible
information to make the command serve the
people of Kwara state better.
Also seized were 16 vehicles, 963 Bags of foreign
rice,4357 containers of mosquito coils among
others Ahmed stated that men of the command have been
on the trail of the suspects for some time now with
a view to intercept them with the substance until
the command achieved the feat a few days ago. The Comptroller said none of the suspects could be
arrested as they ran away and abandoned their
vehicles with the illegal substance immediately they
sighted customs officers. The controller added that “the substance was
conceived in mutilated rags of clothes so as to
prevent the men of the command to feel the
substance until the men of the command checked
the substance in the abandoned vehicles and
discovered the substance inside the lorry used for the smuggling to be illegal. “The cat was let out of the bag, as the suspects
involved in the act fled into the bush and ran away
from being arrested by men of the command on
during the operation”. Ahmed who called on the well-meaning Nigerians
to continue to give useful information that could be
of assistance to the command in the discharge of its
duties said that the gesture would go a long way at
ridding the society of illegal activities of smugglers in the country.
The customs boss, who said that the hard drugs
could ruin society, added that users of the drugs
are Nigerians and children of some people who in
turn engage in such criminality as rape, robbery,
etc. He, therefore, assured the members of the public
that, the command would continue to work harder
so as to boost revenue generation of the
government and also waged war against anti-
smuggling activities in the border areas of the state. The comptroller urged for synergy between the
command and the stakeholders to stop smuggling
in Kwara state saying that the havoc illegal
substance such as marijuana, and other labeled
items do the nation’s economy and society are
highly destructive.

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