LEADERSHIP recalls that, three weeks ago the Command intercepted 119,000 litres of the same petroleum products, on verge of being smuggled into neighboring Benin Republic.
In a press statement by the command’s public relations officer, Hussein Abdulahi, the products were intercepted along the Seme and Badagry creeks. He said, “In continuation of our efforts to suppress the smuggling of the petroleum products within nooks and crannies of the Command, officers and men of the Seme Area Command on a routine patrol along the bushes within Seme and Badagry intercepted another large quantity of petroleum products packaged in sacks and Jerry cans. The arrest was made in the early hours of Thursday, 22nd September, 2022.
“The seized petroleum products were estimated to be around 2500 Jerry cans of 30 litres each equivalent to 75,000 litres. The Duty Paid Value is N19.8million.” He, however, said that the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Bello Jibo, warned petroleum smugglers to beware of the Seme route as the command will continue inflicting heavy losses on them.