Scores disrupted activities at the popular Oja-Tuntun Market in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital on Thursday to protest against seizure of 700...
Scores disrupted activities at the popular Oja-Tuntun Market in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital on Thursday to protest against seizure of 700 bags of rice from a warehouse.The protesters accused men of the Customs Service of carrying out unlawful arrest, detention and seizure of rice believed to be Nigerian produce from a warehouse in Ilorin.
According to him: “Men of the Nigerian Customs Services came to my warehouse around 2am in the night broke my door, tied my security man down and carted away my rice. 704 bags of Nigerian rice.“Ask any producer of rice in Nigeria, Mount Olive Nigeria Ltd have been supporting them because I am the distributor of Nigerian rice in the whole South West and Nigeria customs just came to frustrate me.
“They said I should come and see the AGC today and when I got to their office they said he was not around. Three of my staff were locked up and they collected N50,000 from me before they were released.“One of my friends who also came was locked up.” “I have branches all over the country, my company is in 23 locations across the country they should come and investigate. We are ready to cooperate with whoever wants to come and investigate us.
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