The Ogun State Command of Nigeria Customs Service, said it has intercepted a cache of 1,480 cartridges of live ammunition concealed in 15 bags of imported rice during a special raid carried out by its operatives last Thursday on some hotspots around the state .
The command also intercepted 72 kilogrammes of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp (Cannabis Sativa) concealed in nine bags along the Imeko route in the Imeko–Afon local government area of the state.
The Ogun State Command of Nigeria Customs Service, said it has intercepted a cache of 1,480 cartridges of live ammunition concealed in 15 bags of imported rice during a special raid carried out by its operatives last Thursday on some hotspots around the state .
The command also intercepted 72 kilogrammes of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp (Cannabis Sativa) concealed in nine bags along the Imeko route in the Imeko–Afon local government area of the state.
The Command’s Area Comptroller, Mamudu Haruna, who disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Abeokuta, the state capital, said the ammunition were intercepted along the Abeokuta– Igboora bush path bb patrol men who acted on intelligence.
Haruna said the interception was coming against the backdrop of security challenges confronting the country occasioned by the Boko Haram insurgency, which had forced the NCS to re-arrange its anti-smuggling strategies and assisted in uncovering the new antics of smugglers.
The area comptroller, who said no arrest was made, also stated that smugglers had adopted new strategies of concealing arms and ammunitions in sacks containing locallyproduced foodstuff like cassava and yam flour.
He stated that the smugglers abandoned the rice and ammunition when they got wind that NCS officials had waylaid them on the route and fled into the bush.
Emphasising that NCS would not relent in its mandate by stepping up security at the borders, particularly against the importation of arms and ammunition, Haruna added that the synergy between NCS and other security agencies was paying up, and that they would soon close up on the smugglers.
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