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.”
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.
