The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ (FOUC) has intercepted three trucks conveying six 6×20ft containers of logs of unprocessed timber.
This is contained in a release by the Zone ‘C’ Public Relations Officer, Mr Jerry Attah, made available to newsmen in Owerri on Monday.
According to him, when tree felling is not checkmated, the ecosystem and its biodiversity are left to suffer.He decried the economic loss brought upon Nigeria with the exportation of unprocessed logs, adding that employment creation which resulted from local processing of the logs was vital for the youth.
“Exportation of rough timber which contravenes schedule 6 of the extant CET comes with negative economic and environmental effects and must not be condoned,” he said.Also speaking, Lawal said that the logs were about to be smuggled out of the country without clearance from the Nigerian Export Promotion Council .
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