Custom, police, army parade 24 suspected rice smugglers
The security agents also paraded 850 bags of50 kilograms of rice allegedly smuggled into the country by the suspects.
Egbetokun said that the 15 suspects were the drivers transporting the smuggled rice in various vehicles to some destinations where they were asked to keep the goods. He said the nine suspects whom he described as the owners of the smuggled goods were arrested at different locations both within and outside the state.Egbetokun said that the suspects confessed that they bought the rice from Cotonou in Benin Republic to sell in Nigeria.
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