The Nigeria Customs Service’s Adamawa/Taraba Area Command reported that they seized 28 contraband items valued at N33.9 million over the past three weeks.
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Most of the seized contraband consisted of premium motor spirit, commonly referred to as petrol, along with diesel and some hard drugs.
On Monday, at the Area Command headquarters in Yola, Controller Garbar Bashir, the Customs Comptroller for the area, stated that these seizures occurred at various smuggling hotspots on different dates and times.
He detailed the confiscated items, which included 36,435 litres of petrol and diesel stored in 1,194 25-litre Jerry cans and two 200-litre drums of petrol; as well as 115 Jerry cans of diesel with capacities of 25 litres, 30 litres, and 200 litres each.
He emphasized that all the contraband was meant to be smuggled out of the country from the various locations where Customs officers discovered them.
The specific locations where these contraband items were found and seized include the Likitaba-Gembu axis, Mubi-Sahuda axis, Malabu-Belel axis, Girei-Wuro Bokki axis, Ganye-Toungo axis, and the Damare/Gurin-Fufore axis, all situated at the borders of Adamawa and Taraba states.
Additionally, the Command confiscated eight 200-litre drums and 35 25-litre Jerry cans of Dichlomethane, also known as suck and Die, which the Customs controller subsequently handed over to representatives from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.