Customs Loses Officer After Smugglers Ambushed Patrol Team, Riddled Van With Bullets In Kwara

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) loses officer after a Patrol Team was ambushed by smugglers in Kwara.

Group of hoodlums reportedly shot sporadically and pelted the Personnel with other dangerous items.

Team was reportedly in transit having evacuated some abandoned thirty jerry cans of PMS and forty bags of rice.

Customs states that the Sector will continue to prosecute the anti-smuggling crusade despite the unwarranted attacks.

A custom officer attached to the Joint Border Patrol Team (JBPT) Sector 3 of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has lost his life while others sustain various varying degrees of injury during an ambush along Sinau-Kenu road in Baruten LGA of Kwara State.

Customs reports that the Joint Border Patrol Team was attacked by a group of hoodlums, who shot sporadically and pelted the Personnel with other dangerous items. The team was reportedly in transit having evacuated some abandoned thirty jerry cans of PMS and forty bags of rice.

According to the Press Release signed by Customs PRO Kwara Command, Chado Zakari, the deceased, ASCI Saheed Aweda has been buried according to Islamic rites in his home town, Popogbona in Ilorin West Local Government of Kwara State.

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He said Comptroller Olugboyega Peters, Representatives of DSS, NPF, ONSA, NIA, Immigration and other security agencies have visited the family of the deceased to commiserate with them and prayed for the deceased officer whose sacrifice is deeply appreciated and held in high esteem.

Meanwhile, the Coordinator Joint Border Patrol Team (JBPT) Compt. Olugboyega Peters has ordered a full-scale investigation to fish out the criminals who perpetuated the inhuman aggression.

He states that the Sector will continue to prosecute the anti-smuggling crusade despite the unwarranted attacks.

“This trend of unprovoked attacks by faceless cowards whose intention is to instil fear in the minds of law enforcement operatives shall not go unpunished. Neither will it dampen the resolve of officers and men from carrying out their statutory functions.”

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