Customs impounds 52 bags of rice in Mubi

By Ibrahim Abdul’ Aziz

Yola

The Adamawa/Taraba Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has arrested a tipper lorry truck and two tricycles loaded with suspected smuggled rice in the commercial border town of Mubi, Adamawa state.
Speaking while inspecting the arrested vehicles and commodity in Mubi, Area Comptroller, Mr Francis Adetoye, warned smugglers that the service under the present administration has zero tolerance for any act of economic sabotage.
Adetoye said that the command had identified new ways adopted by smugglers to conduct their nefarious activities such as using tipper lorries carrying sand with bags of rice beneath in attempts to deceive customs officials.
“They (smugglers) are using the cover of ongoing construction work in Mubi by using tippers meant for conveying sand for smuggling by covering the items with sands.
“The lorry you are seeing here was arrested along the Mubi-Sahuda border road with 52 bags of rice covered with sand,” Adetoye said.
The comptroller commended the officers and men of the Mubi office of the command for their commitment to check smuggling in the border town and assured them of the command support at all town.
The comptroller, who also addressed some members of Mubi business community, cautioned them on the dangers of smuggling and the consequences if caught.
Earlier, the officer in charge of Mubi unit, Mr Aliyu Bunza, who narrated the successes recorded by the unit in checking the activities of smugglers in the border town, lauded the support and cooperation being received from other security operatives in the area.
Also speaking, some representatives of Mubi business community, Alhaji Sanusi Hassan and Mallam Sali Manaja declared the support of their members to the customs effort to check smuggling and promised to continue to educate their members against the menace.

 

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