The Adamawa/Taraba Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, made 28 seizures of contraband items with duty paid value of N33.9 million in the last three weeks.
The contrabands were mostly premium motor spirit, popularly known as petrol, as well as diesel and some hard drugs.
The Comptroller of Customs in the area, Controller Garbar Bashir said at the Area Command headquarters in Yola on Monday that the seizures were made at different smuggling flash points on different dates and times.
He specified the seized materials as 36,435 litres of petrol and diesel packed in 1,194 25-litre Jerry cans and two 200-litres drums of petrol; 115 Jerry cans of diesel with capacity for 25 litres, 30l, and 200 litres each.
All of the contrabands, he stressed, were intended to be snuggled out of the country from the different places where they were found by Customs officers.
The locations where the contrabands were found and confiscated which he identified are Likitaba-Gembu axis, Mubi-Sahuda axis, Malabu-Belel axis, Girei-Wuro Bokki axis, Ganye-Toungo axis, and Damare/Gurin-Fufore axis, all at frontiers of Adamawa and Taraba states.
The Command also seized eight 200-litre drums and 35 25-litre Jerry cans of Dichlomethane, otherwise called suck and Die, which the Customs controller handed over to representatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
