The Nigeria Custom Service has drafted armed personnel to prevent the smuggling of imported vehicles through land borders in Kwara, the Area Comptroller, Alhaji Garba Kabiru, has said.
Kabiru, who is in charge of
Niger, Kogi and Kwara State Command, said customs personnel had been
mobilised to prevent smuggling of vehicles and other goods into the
cuntry.
“We have since issued effective
operational order to our officers in the border areas on how to prevent
the illegal business and deal with smugglers,” he said in an interview
with News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) in Minna.
“We
have blocked all their identified exists through our border areas in
Kwara as well as those coming on transit from other states.
“We have partnered with traditional rulers especially those around border communities to alert us on the movement of smugglers.”
The
customs comptroller believed that the support of border communities
would lead to more successes in ending smuggling across the nation’s
borders.
Kabiru,
therefore, appealed to residents of such communities to offer
intelligence reports on the movement of smugglers to help save Nigeria’s
economy.
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