The Federal Operations Unit, Zone C of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Owerri, Imo State, has confiscated illegally imported items with an overall Duty Paid Value of N145, 165, 705.
Mr. Haruna Mamudu, the Customs Area Comptroller of the zone, said that 1,500 cartons of poultry products, (concealed with scaffolding iron, big drums and wheel barrows) with a DPV of N21,000,000 and a truck load of 156 jumbo bales of second hand clothing with a DPV of N26,892,000 were confiscated.
Mamadu, while speaking with newsmen in Owerri, the state capital, said the seizures occurred on the Benin expressway, Aba-Eleme-Port Harcourt road and the Aba-Eleme axis.
“A truck load of fake and unregistered medicaments made up of 190 cartons of Tremadol, 10 sodium laury/sulphate, 1,700 pairs of shoes with a DPV of N2, 778, 000, 39 bags of sodium citrate with a DPV of N87, 228, 105, 115 pieces of used tyres with DPV of N624, 000, 30 bags of potassium chloride, 10 bags of fatty alcohol and assorted foreign soap/cosmetic with DPV of N6, 573, 600 were also impounded.”
While urging officers and men of the zone to rededicate themselves to meeting the requirements of the new change in administration in the country, Mamudu, who has spent only about one week in the unit, decried the continued degeneration of the nation’s economy.
“Corruption is no more a welcome word in NCS not to talk of FOU Zone C,” the Controller said, stating that the NCS would continue to ensure zero tolerance for corruption as has been enunciated by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd.) and would also apply strict measures to block all areas of leakages to meet up with its revenue target.”
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