Customs Service detects, seizes foreign rice packed as beans

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has seized 256 bags of rice packed as beans in a trailer travelling on the Yola-Mubi road in....

The Nigerian Customs Service has seized 256 bags of rice packed as beans in a trailer travelling on the Yola-Mubi road in Adamawa State.

Olumoh who conducted the newsmen round the seized trailer and about half of the content which was brought down and opened to show how the bags of rice were carefully covered with beans, said, “This trailer you see here was intercepted supposedly carrying bags of beans but found on examination to have concealed bags of smuggled rice in bags of beans.

“We will usually seize contraband and the vehicles conveying them and they would be forfeited,” he warned.Speaking of the 35 drums of petroleum product, Kamardeen Olumoh said the drums were in a truck which his men found with no trace of the driver.

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