The Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted Two Hundred and Six Thousand Pieces of Ready to Use Cutlasses imported from Ghana among other notable seizures at Tincan Island Port.
This was made known at a Press briefing by the new Customs Area Controller in charge of the Tincan Island Port, Comptroller Kunle Oloyede.
He said, the items were seized due to the inability of the Importers to produce End Users Certificates.
“Right now, we have Eight Containers lined, I can’t imagine the Farm that will use these Cutlasses, each Carton has about Thirty pieces and they are not blank but ready to use, if these should get into the wrong hands, you can imagine the Security implications. You need End Users Certificates to import these Cutlasses, we want to know the End Users.” He stated.
According to the CAC, other Seizures include, 145kg of Colorado (Indian hemp) concealed in 2 units of Ridgeline trucks and 2 units of Toyota corolla vehicles, 206,000 pieces of machetes, 640 bales of used clothes, 236,500 pieces of used shoes, 62,500 pieces of new lady’s shoes, 1,670,400 pieces of Chloroquine injections (5mg/5ml), 1,814,400 pieces Novalgen injection (500mg/5ml), 48,850 rolls of cigarettes and 23,800 tins of sodium bromate & baking powder. All with a Duty Paid Value of One Billion, Forty Eight Million, Eight Hundred and Ten Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty Nine Naira. (1,048,810,569,00.).
Comptroller Kunle Oloyede said, the import of the products contravenes Sections 46, 47& 161 of the Customs & Excise Management Act (CEMA) Cap 45 LFN 2004.
Speaking on Exportation, the CAC also said, the total tonnage of goods exported through Tincan Island Port for the period under review (January March 2022) is 71,014.4 Metric Tonnes with a total FOB value of N56,205,901,295.
While in the preceding year January-March 2021, the total tonnage of goods exported through the Command was 44,502.9 Metric Tonnes with a total FOB value of N31,371,825,954.
