The Seme Command of the Nigerian Customs Service has impounded more than ten thousand bags of smuggled rice, vegetable oil and bales of second hand clothing and shoes estimated at 500 hundred million naira, an equivalent of $1.6 million.
The area comptroller of the command, Victor Dimka while making the disclosure noted that inspite of the ban on rice importation from the land borders, smuggling of the product has not ceased.
Comptroller Dimka maintained that all rice importation must be made through the seaports, warning that more seizures will be made for as long as smugglers continue to defy the country’s laws.
