Customs: FOU Zone 'A' Seized 206 Items, Generates 305M In Q1 of 2024
By: Bisi Akingbade
The Controller, Federal Operations Unit Zone A, Comptroller Hussein Ejibunu,
has disclosed on Friday that the command made 206 seizures in the first quarter of year 2024, in Lagos State.
Speaking on the seizures, Comptroller Ejibunu told newsmen at a conference that smugglers ought to have paid N2.87 billion as import duties on the seized goods.
The item seized includes 12,278 50kg bags of rice, 40 used vehicles, 286 cartons of rubber slippers, and 1,220 cartons of tomato pastes, 2,705 kegs of petrol, 3,510 pieces of used tyres, 330 bales of used clothes, 2,230kg of Indian hemp and 1,569 cartons of frozen poultry products.
Others are 365 cartons of unmarked drugs, 104 motorcycles and 566 cartons of slippers during the period, he added.
He affirmed that N305 million revenue were generated in the first quarter of 2024.
Ejibunu stated further that smuggled frozen poultry products were intercepted around Badagry in Lagos State on Friday and advised Nigerians to stop patronising frozen poultry products as harmful chemicals were used in their preservation.
He also confirmed arrest of 29 suspects in connection with the seizures.
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