Barely a week after the Acting Controller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, put the command on a red alert against movement of
firearms, Operatives of the Ogun Area 1 Command of the Service, over the weekend, intercepted a 20 sacks of ammunition enroute the neighbouring Niger Republic.
Addressing journalists on Monday in Abeokuta, the state capital, Customs’ Controller for the Area 1 Command, Bamidele Makinde, said the contrabands were intercepted at around 0024-hours of Friday, August 12, 2023 by the Roving “B” Team of the Service, which was on a routine patrol of the border.
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