Joint Border Patrol Team Records N139m Worth of Seizures, Including 16 Second-hand Vehicles, 5 Motorcycles

Joint Border Patrol Team records N139 million worth of seizures, including 16 used vehicles, 5 motorcycles.

Among the seized items include a Lexus worth N21 Million, impounded for evading Customs duty of N7.3 Million. 

Others are 91 Bales of secondhand clothing, 39 Cartons of Foreign Tomatoes paste and 11 Kegs of Vegetable oil.

The Sector 3 of the Joint Border Patrol Team, North Central Zone, with Headquarters in Kwara State coordinated by Comptroller Olugboyega Peters has intercepted a luxury bus, popularly called “Marcopolo”, conveying contraband goods along the Abuja-Lokoja highway.

Items recovered includes forty-four (44) Bales of acidic second-hand clothing and sixteen (16) sacks of fairly used infectious shoes with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N3,680,000.

According to the JBPT Coordinator, a total number of Three thousand and sixty eight litres of 25 litres each of PMS, totalling Seventy six thousand, seven hundred (76,700,000L) litres were also
intercepted by his Team.

“It is difficult to imagine that despite the current fuel scarcity of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) in the country, some unpatriotic Nigerians still attempted to smuggle this product out of the country through our border.

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“However, in line with the extant laws, most of the inflammable products have been auctioned to the public and with the amount generated as fees remitted to government coffers.” Olugboyega Peters noted.

Also intercepted is a trailer load with five hundred and fifty foreign parboiled rice of 50kg each along Mokwa-Jebba road with a DPV of N14,025,000 and a Lexus SUV worth N21 Million for evading customs duty of N7.3 Million.

Over One hundred and seven (107) seizures were recorded with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of One hundred and thirty nine Million, Seven hundred and seven thousand, five hundred naira.

They included 16 used vehicles, 91 Bales of secondhand clothing, 39 Cartons of Foreign Tomatoes paste, 5 Motorcycles and 11 Kegs of Vegetable oil among others.

Comptroller Olugboyega Peters thanked the Comptroller-General of Customs Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd), Office of National Security Adviser, NIA, DSS, Immigration, Nigerian Police Force and other relevant sister agencies for their efforts.

He assured that Sector 3 Team under his watch would maintain zero tolerance for smuggling, bearing in mind its negative implications on the National Economic growth and development.

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