Customs seizes1,100 rifles at Tin Can
Lagos-Operatives of Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, yesterday, smashed a syndicate that specialized in smuggling weapons into the country, discovering a consignment of 1,100 pump action rifles loaded in a 20-foot container.
The importer declared the prohibited items as wash hand basin and water closets. But after the suspected container was transferred to the Enforcement Unit of Tin-Can Command and examined, the items inside the container were found to be guns.
Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC) Col. Hameed Ali (retd) said the guns were shipped into the country from Turkey.Col. Ali told reporters that a senior officer of the service who allegedly authorised the cutting of the seal on the container and one of the clerks working in the terminal where the container was discharged have been arrested. They are undergoing investigation.
A Vessel, MV Bella Shuttle, Col. Ali said, brought the 600 Jojef Magnum Pump Action Rifles, 300 Jojef Magnum Silver Pump Action rifles and 200 Jojef Magnum Plastic Single Barrels Hubting gun pump action rifles into the country.
The seizure, the Comptroller-General said, is the third in eight months. He praised the “dedicated officers and men” for their triumph over those who “do not wish this country well”.
The importer declared the prohibited items as wash hand basin and water closets. But after the suspected container was transferred to the Enforcement Unit of Tin-Can Command and examined, the items inside the container were found to be guns.
Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC) Col. Hameed Ali (retd) said the guns were shipped into the country from Turkey.Col. Ali told reporters that a senior officer of the service who allegedly authorised the cutting of the seal on the container and one of the clerks working in the terminal where the container was discharged have been arrested. They are undergoing investigation.
A Vessel, MV Bella Shuttle, Col. Ali said, brought the 600 Jojef Magnum Pump Action Rifles, 300 Jojef Magnum Silver Pump Action rifles and 200 Jojef Magnum Plastic Single Barrels Hubting gun pump action rifles into the country.
The seizure, the Comptroller-General said, is the third in eight months. He praised the “dedicated officers and men” for their triumph over those who “do not wish this country well”.
“We will begin to parade erring officers in order to serve as deterrence to others. Customs, under my leadership will do all that is possible to fish out those remotely connected with this devilish importation and bring them to justice.”
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