Customs impounds N65m goods at Idiroko

The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone “A“ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it has intercepted vehicles, poultry products, bales of used clothes and general goods valued N65 million at Idiroko, Ogun.

This is contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Uche Ejesieme, in Lagos yesterday.

According to the statement, the Idiroko axis monitoring team of the command intercepted the goods on May 27, at about 3:25p.m.

The statement quoted the leader of the team, Deputy Comptroller Yahaya Usman, as saying that his team had a stiff battle with the smugglers before they were eventually subdued.

“We intercepted vehicles, poultry products, 413 bales of used clothing and other general goods suspected to have been smuggled through unapproved routes.

“We had mounted surveillance along some of the unapproved routes and we are very optimistic that the anti-smuggling strategies being carefully articulated will always yield desired results,” the statement said.