The
Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun State Command has intercepted 1,480 cartridges of
live ammunition concealed in 15 bags of rice from smugglers along the
Abeokuta-Igboora bush path.
According to Daily Post, Comptroller of the state Command, Haruna Mamudu, said his men got the information of the illegal movement of the ammunition and had laid ambush for the criminals.
He said,
the Command also confisicated nine sacks of Indian hemp at the Imeko area of
the state.
Mamudu
said, “This is one of the tactics being adopted by smugglers, which we are
already aware of. Recently, we made the same type of seizure of ammunition at
the Imeko area”.
“Given
the security challenges in the country occasioned by insurgency, the Command
has re-arranged its anti-smuggling strategy and the result is what you are
seeing today.
The area
comptroller said the Command would hand over the ammunition to the police, the
appropriate government agency concerned with arms and ammunition
When dem dey seize rice, dey pocket am, dem no talk ooooo, dem come seize ammunitions now, the whole world must hear.... Thieves
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