Goods valued at N2.1 billion, which entered into the country through illegal sources were seized by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) between April and June, 2014.
This is contained in the service’s “Summary of Suppression of Smuggling/Seizure Report” made available to newsmen in Abuja yesterday.
The report said that the impounded goods included vehicles, motorcycles, furniture, narcotics/hard drugs, pharmaceuticals as well as rice, frozen poultry and petroleum products.
Goods valued at N2.1 billion, which entered into the country through illegal sources were seized by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) between April and June, 2014.
This is contained in the service’s “Summary of Suppression of Smuggling/Seizure Report” made available to newsmen in Abuja yesterday.
The report said that the impounded goods included vehicles, motorcycles, furniture, narcotics/hard drugs, pharmaceuticals as well as rice, frozen poultry and petroleum products.
According to the report, the goods were recovered in 2.060 seizures during the period and the duty payable on the goods was N452.8 million.
The breakdown of the impounded items during the period showed that vehicles were 567, motorcycles, 93; arms and ammunition, 120 and 68,856 bags of rice.
The report also revealed that 27,183 cartons of frozen poultry were impounded and destroyed, while 1,661 cartons of beverages and confectioneries were seized during the period.
According to the report, the service impounded 1,023.10 kilogrammes of narcotics while 12,203 cartons of pharmaceuticals and medicament were also seized.
It further showed that a total of 962 cartons of wines and alcoholic beverages, 1,552 bales of textiles and 3,428 cartons of insecticides were impounded during the period.
It said that other goods impounded during the period were bags, suitcases, machinery/mechanical parts, electrical, tobacco and cigarettes.
In the first quarter of the year, the service recorded 1,847 seizures which involved goods worth N1.6 billion.
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