The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Area 1 Command, said it seized over 2,000 bags of smuggled rice and generated N13,370,229 revenue in July.
In a statement, the spokesman of the command, Hammed Oloyede, quoted the Area Controller, Bamidele Makinde, as saying that the command seized: “2,113 bags of foreign parboiled rice of 50kg each, 21 units of vehicles (means of conveyance & Tokunbo), 17,950 litres of PMS and 1,416 pieces of used tyres among others.”
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The seizures, Makinde said, were made from different areas in Ogun State through intelligence gathering, adding that the duty payable value of the seized items was N106,757,592.
