The Team Commander of Operation Whirlwind, Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Assistant Comptroller Bello Mahmood Ishidi , has announced that 61 sacks and 7 Jerrycans of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) loaded in a large Canoe with it’s destination to Benin Republic was intercepted at Badagry waterside on 31st December 2024.
According to a press release issued by AC Ishidi, this occurred just 10 days after the National Coordinator had a press briefing to showcase the close to the end of the year achievement on the monumental operation on the smuggle of PMS intercepted by the operatives of Zone A.
He disclosed that the smugglers have now developed a new smuggling concept of PMS in sacks, although this re-emerged concept was an old method, but since the commencement of operation, this is the first time that the team gets across this method of all the seizures made which were intercepted in Jerrycans.
Bello Ishidi informed that National Coordinator has directed for the auction of the seized product.
“A total of sixty(61) sacks and seven(7) Jerrycans were intercepted by operatives, with each sack containing one hundred and fifty litres (150). This translated into ten thousand nine hundred and seventy litres (10970).
“The said intercepted products were evacuated from the canoe with the re-enforcement from the Nigeria Military from Badagry Barrack. It was a very successful operation without any casualty, although there was an attempt by the smugglers.
“However, due to the nature of the product, the National Coordinator has directed for the auction of the seized product.” he said.
