ABUJA: Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has intercepted 15, 782 cartons of frozen poultry product being illegally imported into the country.
NCS Area Controller in Ogun, Comptroller Haruna Mamudu who disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Abeokuta, the state capital explained that the Duty Payable Value, DPV, of the confiscated frozen products worth N63. 128 million.
Mamudu further stated that the confiscated products which included chicken and turkey were intercepted along the border towns of Ihunbo and Imeko in Ipokia as well as Imeko/Afon local government areas of the state within the past two weeks.
The Ogun Customs boss further stated that the smugglers concealed the contraband inside the extra compartments built in five trucks to with the purpose of deceiving NCS operatives manning checkpoints in the area and then escape.
He added that the NCS operatives at the border town initially mistaken the five trucks for those conveying frozen fish before careful examination of the trucks revealed that they were concealed with contraband.
