The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Monday said its officers intercepted over two thousand bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice from smugglers at Ogun waterside area and its environs.
Addressing newsmen on Monday, Comptroller Kola Oladeji, Area Controller of the unit who addressed the media in Lagos, said the seizures were made through intelligence and surveillance alomg the 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.
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According to him, no arrest were 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 his team is on a round the clock operation and that the yuletide period does not mean a holiday for him and his men.
