The Nigeria Customs Service said it intercepted 150 cartons of bulletproof jackets worth N1.687 billion in its Zone A Federal Operations Unit of Lagos.
The Customs Area Controller in charge of the unit, Kola Oladeji disclosed this to journalists on Thursday.
He noted that the contrabands were intercepted along the Ijebuode-Sagamu Expressway in Ogun State.
Oladeji explained that each carton contains 10 packs of the jacket, adding that these contrabands were seized in June.
He explained that under Schedule 4 of the Customs Common External Tariff, the importation of all kinds of military wares by individuals was under absolute prohibition.
Oladeji vowed that the unit was working on credible intelligence to get the importers of these contrabands.
“An end-user certificate is required for the importation of controlled items and products into Nigeria and it comes from the Office of the National Security Adviser.
“These seizures were unique because it was a breach of security, no end-user-certificate”, he said.
