. . .. The Nigeria Customs Service Ogun State Command says its intensified crackdown on smuggling activities along the Idiroko border axis in five weeks have recorded major seizures across different parts of the state with an estimated duty paid value of more than six-point-seven billion naira.
Items intercepted by operatives of the Ogun One Area Command include one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-nine bags of foreign rice, over ten thousand parcels of cannabis indica, popularly known as Ghana Loud, thousands of kegs of vegetable oil, petroleum products, expired food items, unregistered pharmaceutical products, and used clothing.
Speaking on the development, the Acting Customs Controller of Ogun One Area Command, Deputy Comptroller Oladapo Afeni, said the Command recorded seventy-three per cent seizures within five weeks, with an estimated duty paid value of more than six-point-seven billion naira.
He explained that officers also intercepted trucks conveying smuggled vegetable oil, expired Maggi cubes, and Analgin injections without registration numbers from the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, along the Sagamu Interchange and Ogere axis.
Deputy Comptroller Afeni further revealed that the Command generated over one hundred and twenty-five million naira in revenue between March and May twenty twenty-six through baggage assessment and the auction of seized petroleum products.
According to him, the Command also facilitated exports valued at more than one billion naira within the same period.
The Acting Controller added that plans were underway to deploy advanced geospatial technology to strengthen border surveillance and improve intelligence-led enforcemenot.
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