Customs lose 5 vehicles in process of apprehending smugglers

According to the Vanguard:::::

The Ogun Command of Nigeria Custom Service (NCS) has recorded losses of two patrol vans, three vehicles belonging to officers and one operational check-point at Atan community, along Idiroko road, the border between Nigeria and Republic of Benin.

 

This is happening just few weeks after smugglers from the same axis attacked officers on duty and shattered their patrol vehicles with bullets. Sunday Vanguard gathered that the Command incurred the losses in a vicious attack by smugglers at Atan, who set their vehicles ablaze, attacked officers on duty and destroyed the entire check point. 

The smugglers attacked the officers in an attempt to prevent them from securing seizures of 285 cartons of foreign imported poultry products and 45 bags of rice, brought into the country illegally, against government’s trade policy on ban of poultry products and rice importation through land borders. 

During a visit to the scene of attack at Atan, Sunday Vanguard observed that the only things left on ground were the   burnt vehicles, while the check-point was totally destroyed. Two individuals at Atan who spoke on condition of anonymity expressed displeasure on incessant attacks on Customs by smugglers, stressing that some dare-devil smugglers at Idiroko see illicit border trade as their birth right.

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