The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A of Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted over two thousand bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice from smugglers at Ogun waterside and environs
Comptroller Kola Oladeji, Area Controller of the unit who addressed the media in Lagos, said the seizures were made through intelligence and surveillance on border areas
He said customs operatives allowed the smugglers to offload before the rice were swooped on with the assistance of the Nigerian Army to avoid casualty.
According to him no arrest made and no shot was fired in the cause of seizure and evacuation from Ogun to the unit’s headquarters in Lagos
Oladeji specifically thanked the 9th Mechanized Brigade of the army under Brig Gen Matthew Oyekola for their assistance in the fight against smuggling while describing the evacuation process as peaceful and seamless
He added that the his team is on a round the clock operation and that the yuletide period does not mean a holiday for him and his men.
