Customs Joint Patrol Seizes 550 Live Ammunitions, others

The Joint Border Patrol Team Sector 3 in charge of the North Central States has intercepted a large quantity of live ammunition consisting of 550 cartridges contained in 22 packs of 25 pieces each.

The Coordinator of the team, Comptroller Olugboyega Peters, disclosed this at the customs base in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, while giving updates on the team’s operations. 

The Coordinator of the Northcentral Joint Border Patrol Team, Comptroller Olugboyega Peters, while giving an update on the operations of his team, said the joint border patrol recorded forty-six seizures of various items during the period under review. 

Olugboyega, while giving further breakdown, noted that 131, 273 liters of premium motor spirit in various jerry cans, 751 bags of foreign parboiled rice, including 550 pump action cartridges smuggled into the country, were some of the items seized during the period, all with a duty pay value of about twenty-nine million, two hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred naira only 

Peters urged residents in his zone to see customs officers and other security officers as friends.

Olugboyega Peters said his Team; will continue to ensure effective border security to forestall all illegal activities along the national borderlines in the country.