The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Adamawa/ Taraba area command has seized contraband goods worth N232 million.
The Controller of the Adamawa, Taraba Area Command of the NCS, Ishaka Ganiyu revealed this on Tuesday in Yola while speaking with newsmen in his half year briefing.
According to him the seizures were made between January and June this year
The contraband items include 4,649 bags (50kg each) of urea fertiliser; 392 bags (50kg) of foreign rice; 70 bags (50kg) of unpeeled rice; 1,500 sachets of tramadol tablets; 562 Jerry cans (25 litres each) of petrol; 358 Jerry cans (20 litres) of foreign engine oil; 37 bales of used clothes; 833 assorted hand phones; 958 wristwatches; and 22 motorcars, among others.
The NCS Area Controller said the seizures were a huge improvement on what was obtained within the same period last year.
He attributed this to a resolve by the Command to double efforts in the fight against smugglers.
Urea fertiliser, one of the items seized by the NCS, is a banned product across the Northeast owing to the discovery that terrorists were using a component of it to produce explosives.
