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By Steve Agbota
The Joint Border Patrol Team (JBPT) Sector 2, South West Zone, Lagos, said that it intercepted six pump action rifles, and 1,125 live cartridges carefully concealed inside sacks containing cassava flakes (Garri).
The operatives also arrested 1,507 irregular immigrants and other contraband worth N36.7 billion between 2019 and date.
Addressing journalists at a press conference on Friday, the Coordinator of the JBPT, Mohammed Shuaibu, said that the doggedness and sacrifice of JBPT Sector 2 in fighting cross-border crimes was instrumental in achieving some significant success.
Giving the details of the guns, he said on December 4, 2024, a patrol team sighted a man running away from a parked Toyota Camry Saloon car along the Okerete-Odo bush path in Oyo State.
“The fleeing man’s action raised suspicion on the abandoned vehicle and it was intercepted. After conducting a search on the vehicle, it was found to contain six pump-action rifles with the following numbers: 602-H22YT- 641, 602-H22YT-397, 602-H22YT-623, 22-MT-0238, P537916, and T051084. A total of 1,125 live cartridges were found to be carefully concealed inside sacks containing cassava flakes,” he added.
He said prominent among other seizures recorded from 20 August 2019 till date are: 130,954 bags of foreign bags of rice (50kg), equivalent to 218 truck loads; 7,200 kg of pangolin scales; 5,575,020 litres of Premium motor spirit.
He said others are 11,322 cartons of foreign frozen products, 4,124 bales of used clothes, 4,057 kegs of vegetable oil, 15 pump action rifles, 280 suspected cases of human trafficking, 480 units of motor vehicles and 1,190 means of conveyance.
“However, the JBPT Sector 2 had encountered some operational challenges like any other establishment,” he said.
