In a statement, the Customs Area Controller in charge of the command, Salisu Abdullahi, stated this over the weekend while briefing journalists on the command’s activities in May.
Abdullahi added that during the period under review, the command recorded 16 seizures of different contraband.
“Other contraband seized included: 494×50kg bags of dry blended NPK fertiliser, three vehicles namely: Toyota Starlet and two Toyota Corollas, used for conveying foreign parboiled rice, 90x50kg bags of foreign parboiled rice and 960 pieces of foreign soaps. The total duty paid value of the seizures stands at NN22.9m,” the area controller said.
He explained that the NPK fertiliser was seized because of the restrictions placed on the movement of the product, especially in the Northeastern states. “It might interest you to ask that now that we are in the farming season, fertiliser will be highly needed by the farmers to improve their farm yield. So, why the apprehension of the fertiliser? The NCS is one of the agencies saddled with the responsibility of implementing the Federal Government policy on the movement of fertiliser.
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