Follow Us on Google
From Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan
Sixty-four sacks and 150 wraps of Cannabis Sativa, weighing 777.5 kilogrammes, and two truckloads of rice, containing 1,248 (50kg) bags of rice, as well as 10,625 litres of petroleum, concealed in 425 kegs were intercepted by the Nigeria Customs Service, Oyo/Osun Area Command between September and October 2023.
The command also, within the period, seized 24 bales of used clothing with duty paid value of N4,320,000, and one used bag with duty paid value of N180,000, one dane gun with duty paid value of 9,000, and 492 pieces of used tyres at N2,952,000.
The disclosure was made by the Cusom Area Controller for the command, Dr. Ben Oramalugo, at a press conference held at the headquarters of the area command in Ibadan on Friday.
He put the duty paid value of the seized rice at N27,456,000; petroleum at N2,125,000; and Cannabis Sativa at N14,138,460. On the occasion, he handed over the hemp to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Oyo State Command. The delegation of NDLEA to the programme was led by the Deputy Commander, Operations and Training for the Command, Luka Yerima, who received the item on behalf of the agency’s state commander, Joe-Fadile Olayinka.
Oramalugo, however, put the revenue generated into the coffers of the Federal Government by the command between September and October this year, at N11,679,732,583.91kobo.
