But for eagle-eyed Customs officers from Oyo /Osun command of the Nigeria Customs Service, smart smugglers would have got away with their ingenious concealment of 208 bags of smuggled rice.
Upon discovery of this trick, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has raised the alarm and called attention to the method of smuggling.
Controller of the command, Comptroller, Mogaji Muhammad, while addressing reporters in Ibadan disclosed that the petrol tanker was reconstructed and used to conceal the bags of rice.
But for eagle-eyed Customs officers from Oyo /Osun command of the Nigeria Customs Service, smart smugglers would have got away with their ingenious concealment of 208 bags of smuggled rice.
Upon discovery of this trick, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has raised the alarm and called attention to the method of smuggling.
Controller of the command, Comptroller, Mogaji Muhammad, while addressing reporters in Ibadan disclosed that the petrol tanker was reconstructed and used to conceal the bags of rice.
According to him, “if it were not for the eagle eyes of the officers and information management, the smugglers would have gotten away undetected”.
Giving an insight into how the truck was intercepted, Mogaji told the journalists that the tanker- load of rice was coming from the Lagos axis of the command when it was intercepted at the popular Guru Maharaji Ji end of the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway by his men, even as he described it as another ingenuity of the smugglers in the command.
He explained that the absence of petrol hose with the tanker was the first signal that the tanker was not being used for petroleum products,” he said.
The controller also added that eight suspects were arrested in connection with the smuggled rice. He also disclosed the suspects have been granted conditional bail pending their arraignment in court.
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