The Seme border command of the Nigeria Customs Service has arrested seven suspected smugglers out of which three have been jailed for their involvement in smuggling of contraband items including Indian hemp.
Addressing journalists at the Same Command yesterday, Customs Area Controller, Muhammed Uba said the command also collected N1,055,122,539.68.
He disclosed that for December 2018 alone, the command realised N623,028,442.68, even as he added that the yearly revenue target of the command was N8.1billion and that the command was able to meet 76% of this target.
Uba also disclosed that the command seized assorted smuggled items including 6,753 bags of 50kg rice, 22 fairly used vehicles, petroleum products among others.
Speaking on the jailed smugglers, he said "we have seven persons arrested and three of them have been sentenced to prison terms. We have limitations, in view of the fact that we can only arrest and detain, once this is done, for us, the others are a judicial process which we have no control. However we have a legal seat with a special adviser posted from the Ministry of Justice, such a person continues with the case of our arrests".
According to him, one of the suspects, Difo Kenneth Cornelius was arrested in connection with 91 parcels of hard drugs and narcotics and has been sentenced to two years imprisonment on 30th November 2018.
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