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Customs seizes 502 bags of rice concealed in tanker

The Federal Operations Unit, Zone D of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has impounded a tanker truck loaded with 502 bags of foreign parboiled rice.

Customs Comptroller in charge of Zone D, Comptroller Musa Ibrahim Jalo, said the unregistered truck was intercepted along Bauchi/Gombe axis with the confiscated items valued at N61 million.

Jalo said: “On the 4th of October, at about 0800 hours, my operatives on a credible intelligence stumbled upon this tanker truck suspected to conceal some goods along the Bauchi/Gombe road and upon examination, some 502 bags of foreign parboiled rice were uncovered from the compartment of the truck.”

Jalo said the goods and the tanker truck have been impounded according to the Customs and Excise Management Act (CEMA) CAP C45 LFN 2004.

The Federal Operations Unit Zone D has its headquarters in Bauchi, covering  the North-Eastern states in addition to Plateau, Benue, and Nasarawa states in the North-Central.

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