The Ogun Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has actually impounded 101 trailers of foreign parboiled rice within a period of 13 months.

Controller Dera Nnadi disclosed this at a press conference he addressed at the command’s head office in Idiroko, Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State on Monday.

Nnadi, while speaking on the activities of the command in between January 2021 and January 2022, discussed that 96 trailer loads of rice, being 57,758 bags of 50kg each were taken in 2021, while 5 trailer loads, being 3,008 bags of rice were obstructed in January 2022.

The NCS employer notified that the command likewise stopped the illegal importation of “poultry items, used tires, pre-owned clothing, hazardous drugs (tramadol and cannabis sativa), palm oil, petroleum products, assorted soaps and cream.”

In total, the controller preserved that 1, 389 seizures were made within the period under review, adding that the responsibility paid worth of all the items took totaled up to N1.48 billion.

Speaking further, Nnadi noted that the significant source of income of the Command, which is import and export, have actually not been optimized considering that the closure of the land borders by the Federal Government in 2019.

He added that NCS in Ogun had the ability to produce N43,921,205.50 through “fees collected from the auction sale of seized items, specifically petroleum items, scrap metals and other perishable products.”

While applauding his guys and officers, Nnadi observed that “there is an impressive increase in the number and quantities of seizures tape-recorded in January 2022.”

This, he credited to: “Aggressive stakeholder’s engagement; release of intelligence in all the operations; structural reorganization of the command; improved inspiration of officers by the NCS management as exhibited by the functional vehicles designated to the command,” amongst others.