Displaying the items at the unit’s warehouse in Lagos, the acting Controller of the unit, Hussein Ejibunu, listed other seized items in the Southwest region of the country to include, 1 X 40 ft container FTC one used Toyota Corolla, 49 pieces of car rims, 552 pieces of used car tyres, 205 pieces of used truck tyres and 32 pieces of motorcycle tyres and another 368 pieces of used tyres.
He said smuggling of prohibited items such as used shoes, illicit drugs, used clothes and used tyres is giving serious health concerns. “You may recall that foreign tomato paste, used clothing, foreign parboiled rice, importation of vehicles through the land borders, used tyres, arms and ammunition without end-user certificates among others, are items that fall under the import prohibition list; their importation threatens our fragile economy,” he stated.