ABUJA: The Nigeria Customs Service has distributed 136,476 seized bags of rice to Internally Displaced Persons camps across the country. NCS Public Relations Officer, Joseph Attah disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja. Attah said it was in line with the Presidential directive on seized perishable items. “I can assure you that our anti-smuggling strategy is yielding positive dividends in the last three months, we made a total seizure of 136,506 50kg bags of rice. “The last one year, we made a seizure of 205,825 bags with a duty paid value of more than N1bn; that is just rice alone.
“To build another layer of policing, we have what we call the compliance team that in the last three months alone, made a total of 921 seizures with a DPV (that is Duty Paid Value) of more than N1bn. ‘’Most of these seizures are rice and vehicles. The NCS spokesman said the customs in its relentless war against rice smugglers had record successes and paid great prices through the loss of its officers.
