The Nigeria Customs Service has recorded a significant seizure of petroleum products, with an aggregate Duty Paid Value of about forty million Naira in the Adamawa and Taraba States Command.
The Area Comptroller of the Command, Garba Bashir Bature, who disclosed the success story at a press conference in Yola, said the service will not rest on its oars, until it clamps down smuggling activities to the barest minimum.
This is one among many seizures made by the Nigeria Customs Service in this command within the year 2025 alone.
According to the Comptroller, Garba Bashir Bature, the achievement was recorded as a result of proactiveness by operatives of the command, who acted on credible intelligence.
Part of the seizure includes 2,475 litres of dichloromethane, popularly known as ‘Suck and Die’, which were handed to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
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While assuring the public of continuous defeat of the activities of unrepentant and hardened smugglers, through coordinated border management and leveraging technology, Bature said that seizures were made at various flashpoints on different dates and times, especially in the Likitaba-Gembu, Mubi-Sahuda, Malabu-Belel, the Girei-Wuro Bokki, Ganye-Toungo and the Damare/Gurin-Fufore axis, all at the frontiers of Adamawa and Taraba states.
(Editor: Ena Agbanoma)
