Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service in Sokoto have blocked an oil tanker passing on 446 barrels of vegetable oil, with obligation estimation of about N5.7m. They likewise arrested the driver of the tanker and his escort.
The NCS Area Comptroller responsible for Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states, Mr. Nasir Ahmed, said Bamus Global Co. Ltd. was composed on the tanker, which he said was captured on Sokoto-Gusau Road by the charge's surveillance group.
He said the thwarted activity was another trick of bootleggers, including that the task came scarcely seven days after the summon
captured a truck stacked with 460 sacks of foreign rice with duty estimation of N7.8m.
Ahmed stated, "This is different to me; seeing barrels of vegetable oil stacked in a tanker that should convey oil. I'm certain they are fleeing from Customs, as well as from National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, since you can see there are no marks or NAFDAC accreditation on the barrels.
"However, we trust it is vegetable oil, it would in any case be subjected to NAFDAC test, to figure out what is in reality inside."
Ahmed additionally revealed that the truck driver and his escort captured regarding the stash were helping the order in its investigation.
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