NSCDC foils attempt by fishermen to smuggle petroleum products to Benin vanguardnews
of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp, NSCDC , following the arrest of two of them, weekend.
He informed that these criminal devised another means of carrying on with smuggling of petroleum product to neighboring West African countries, due to closure of the border by the Federal Government. But criminals have now resulted to buying petrol from filling stations outside border communities. Thereafter, they would move the products on motorcycles to riverine communities or fishing settlement from where the jerry cans containing petroleum products would be ferried through the waterways into Benin-Republic.
“The suspects alleged that they were contracted by one Chief in the area to help convey the product to Seme-Border.
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