LAGOS: The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has destroyed over 8,000 cartons of frozen poultry products seized from smugglers who attempted to bring the contraband into the country.
The products were buried on the ground.
The Customs Service, at the same time held a town hall meeting with stakeholders in poultry products during which it launched operation, ‘Hawk Descend’.
Operation hawk descend was meant to create a special task force to fight activities of smugglers, particularly on poultry products headlong.
Also, the essence of the town hall meeting was to put heads together and see how to salvage the poultry products’ sector.
Comptroller General of Customs, Alhaji Dikko Inde Abdullahi, in his opening remarks, lamented that the poultry products’ sector had come under renewed assault by smugglers.
Dikko, who was represented by Deputy Comptroller General of Customs, Musa Tahir, noted that he spent a critical part of his professional years as a career customs officer at Seme command, adding that “it is indeed also with great nostalgia that I recall our anti-smuggling exploits filled with satisfaction about the outcomes. We did not only wage successful wars against smuggling, we also laid strong foundation for putting in place a regime of the rule of law and ensuring sanity in the border environment”.
