The Nigeria Customs Service, Tincan Island Command, has seized three containers loaded with 684 packets of Hashish Indica weighing 341.025kg valued at N682m.
The Customs Space Controller in control of the command, Dera Nnadi, disclosed this on the command on Wednesday, whereas handing over the contrabands to officers of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company.
He added that the handing over of the contrabands was in furtherance of current interagency collaboration and the Memorandum of Understanding between the NDLEA and NCS.
In response to him, the command, having obtained actionable intelligence on the suspected importation of illicit harmful medication from one of many supply nations, intercepted the three containers.
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Giving particulars of the seizures, Nnadi stated, a joint 100 per cent bodily examination was performed on a 40foot container with quantity MSMU 518030/2 on the 2nd of August 2024 and the examination revealed 77 packets of Hashish Indica weighing 38.5kg.
“Additionally, one other 100% bodily examination was performed on a 40ft container with quantity MSMU 602957/0 on eighth Aug 2024 and the examination revealed 532 packets of Hashish Indica weighing 265.025kg.
“Once more, a joint 100 per cent bodily examination was performed on a 40ft container with quantity FSCU 927461/3 on eighth of August 2024 and the examination revealed 75 packets of Hashish Indica weighing 37.5kg,” Nnadi said.
The Tincan Island Customs boss revealed that they’ve commenced an investigation with the accomplice company, the NDLEA on the importation.
Nnadi vowed that the command and certainly the NSC on the whole would deploy all crucial assets and methods and in collaboration with different safety and regulatory companies test the menace of unlawful importation of illicit and harmful substances.