Border closure: Navy arrests 4 suspects, seizes 220 bags of rice
- The Nigerian Navy has arrested four male suspects in connection with the smuggling of 220 bags of rice
- According to the force, the suspects were while trying to get in the products on their wooden boats around Effiat waterways in Akwa Ibom
- The Nigerian Customs Service while receiving the suspects praised the effort of the navy in how they have making fruitful arrests
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base in Mbo local government in Akwa Ibom, has made an arrest of four suspects smuggling 220 bags of 50kg rice.
Daily Trust reports that the suspects who were with the banned goods on a wooden boat were apprehended during the force’s patrol along Effiat waterways.
Captain Peter Yilme, the commanding officer of the base said that the Navy is very much passionate about stopping illegal trade in the country.
Source: UGC
Yilme said that the force will keep breathing down on the necks of the perpetrators of illegal trade if they would not give up their enterprise.
The deputy superintendent of Nigeria Custom Service, Alabi Adeokun, while receiving the suspected smugglers, praised the effort of the Nigerian for their prompt arrests.
“On behalf of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), I, Alabi, Adedokun take over the 4 defendants and 220 bags of foreign parboiled rice. On behalf of the Nigeria Customs Service, we thank you very much,” he said.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that the closure of Nigeria’s land borders aimed at curbing smuggling activities, especially of rice, took a toll on rice-exporting countries.
It was gathered that the price of the commodity dipped by a joint 46 percent in one month in countries like Thailand and India.
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President Muhammadu Buhari had on Wednesday, August 21, ordered the closure of the Seme border.
Between that period and September, the wholesale price of the broken parboiled rice, the species in top exporting countries fell on product glut resulting from a decline in exports.
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