THE Seme Customs Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that the command, on a daily basis seizes at least two hundred bags of rice from trucks and traders who patronize that route.
Speaking to newsmen at the destruction of contaminated rice and expired medicament, the Customs Area Comptroller, Controller Othman Abdul Saleh said that despite the Federal Government policy on rice import through land borders across the country, Nigerians who frequent the ports of neighbouring countries have refused to adherer to the directive.
Abdul Saleh, who physically commenced the destruction of the seized items, some of which contains banned pharmaceutical drugs, sub-standard public address system, new and second hand clothings, also said that the command will implement to the letter, the policy on rice import through the land border.
On the whole, about 680 bags of contaminated rice and medicament with Duty Paid Value(DPV) of N13million were destroyed
The Comptroller said “ We are stepping up the war against rice being smuggled through the land borders and other unauthorised entry points and we have blocked every loopholes through which these unscrupulous traders bring these items. “The Command has been given the authority to carry this destruction exercise and that is why we have also called other relevant agencies of government to witness the exercise
“It is amazing the unyielding attitude of Nigerians, people have bluntly refused to adhere the ban of rice through land borders, and my officers will not relent in the arrest and consequent confiscation of such imports”.
Source: Vanguard
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