The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Western Marine Command, has handed over 120 sacks containing 10,551 loaves of Hashish Sativa to the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company, NDLEA.
The Customs Space Controller, Odaudu Salefu, made this revelation whereas briefing newsmen on the command on Monday, saying that the seizure has a Obligation Paid Worth, DPV, of N704.5 million.
Salefu, who stated the seizure was a product of the command’s large intelligence community, added that the Customs would work with NDLEA to impact the arrest of the suspects nonetheless at massive.
“The 120 baggage handed over as we speak had been seized in 3 totally different operations at Jegemo Island reverse Iworo Ajido Waterfront and Asipa Seashore alongside the Seme border on the twenty ninth November 2023, 2nd December 2023, and nineteenth January 2024,’’ he stated.
Comptroller Salefu restated the Command’s dedication to safeguarding the nation’s financial curiosity by working with sister businesses at any time when crucial., urging all Nigerians to eschew illicit and unlawful cross-border commerce practices as it’s inimical to the final financial system, well being and welfare of residents.
Whereas receiving the objects, the NDLEA Commander, Paul Ahom, thanked the CAC for following the present synergy between the NCS and the company.
He assured that the NDLEA will proceed to construct on its partnership with Nigeria Customs in a bid to curb the smuggling of medicine into the nation.
