“The rice was concealed inside 100 kg bags and two suspects were also arrested in connection with the contraband.”
The News Agency of Nigeria, reports that Pangolin is an African and Asian mammal that has a body covered with horny overlapping scales, a small head with an elongated snout, a long sticky tongue for catching ants and termites, and a tapering tail.
Mr Kamaldeen Olumoh, the Comptroller in charge of Adamawa and Taraba, told newsmen while displaying the exhibits on Tuesday in Yola, that the Pangolin scales was smuggled into Nigeria from neighbouring Cameron and was seized in 2019. “A long truck popularly known as “Trailer” was apprehended along Mubi-Yola federal highway carrying 266 bags of banned foreign rice.
He said the command also intercepted abandoned truck carrying about 35 drums of petroleum product around Belel town in Maiha local government area of Adamawa.
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