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“There were 81 baggage declarations with duty amounting to N 4, 520, 722. The items imported under this arrangement include food products and beverages produced within the sub-region.
“The Command reordered only 5 declarations of import within this period with a total of N13.383.104 paid as a duty. The dearth in import is as a result of the trade policy introduced i the Republic of Benin which traders and indeed the Service consider hostile to Nigeria” adding:
“122 export trucks bearing 3,770.49 metric tons of made in Nigeria cargo with Free On Board value of N523.660,496.80 kobo and National Export Supervision Scheme Fees of N2,618,302.10K”, was recorded.
So far, his thirteen (13) days on the saddle have been very eventful and surgical, which period has witnessed some of the quickest high-profile achievements in the history of the service anti-smuggling function.
The 13 days fury resulted in the interception of counterfeit USD6 million being trafficked out of Nigeria at the Gbaji Checkpoint, in addition to the detection and arrest of six international passports and ten driving licenses, together with the arrest of the suspects.
The Maltese passports and driver’s licenses carrying the photograph of a European lady but with different names in all the passports and licenses has a tell tale evidence of an international syndicate, involved in trans-border criminalities.
Seized kegs of petrol
Asked about the implication of the involvement of the EU citizen and whether she will be prosecuted by Nigeria given the existing bilateral relationship between Nigeria and the EU, Nnadi said it was too early to determine what would happen, assuring that actions would be based on findings through painstaking investigation.
His words: “The passports we have and the driving licenses we have actually belonged to (a European lady), the face and physical appearance on the passport, the person is supposedly a national of the Malta Republic, which is a European nation. But she was not the one bearing the
