The Nigeria Customs Service, Western Marine Command, has handed over 120 jumbo baggage of Indian hemp price N704m to the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company.
Addressing journalists on the command in Ibafon, Apapa, Lagos lately, the Customs Space Controller answerable for the command, Odaudu Salefu, mentioned the contrabands have been seized at three completely different operations.
Salefu defined that the contrabands have been intercepted at Jegemo Island reverse Iworo Ajido Waterfront and Asipa Seaside alongside Seme Borders between November 2023 and January 2024.
He decried the affect of medicine and psychotropic substances on Nigerian youths.
The CAC vowed that the command wouldn’t relaxation on its oars in bringing the smugglers to e book.
Recall that the NCS in April 2023 signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the NDLEA to make sure synergy and collaboration in monitoring illicit site visitors in laborious medicine alongside Nigeria’s entry factors.
Salefu said, “The management of the NCS underneath the present CGC, Adewale Adeniyi, had directed the command to handover a complete of 120 sacks containing 10,551 loaves of hashish sativa with a complete worth of N704.5m to NDLEA for additional company motion.”
He added that the handing over was a product of laborious work, dedication, and bravado of officers of the command, who had labored with diligence and integrity to puncture the reign of smugglers of these laborious medicine.
“These seizures have been additionally a product of our command’s broad community of intelligence with suspects of those trades nonetheless at giant however the command will now work with NDLEA to impact the arrest of those depraved merchants,” Salefu famous.
He reiterated that the command remained steadfast in its dedication to safeguarding the nation’s financial curiosity by working with sister businesses every time mandatory.
Salefu urged Nigerians to desist from illicit and unlawful cross-border commerce practices because it was unhealthy for the overall financial system and well being of Nigerians.
Whereas receiving the hashish, the NDLEA Commander of Narcotics, Paul Ahom, said that the command had distinguished itself amongst different instructions, particularly within the space of suppressing smuggling.
“We extremely respect your efforts; we commend you and we stay up for having extra synergy in combating drug trafficking on our waterways.
“We must always not neglect that the waterways are porous; it’s not just like the land operations. it’s equally dangerous catching smugglers on the waterway,” Ahom declared.
