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The Kwara area command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 3,620 rounds of live pump action cartridges in Bukuru suspected to be smuggled into the country.
The ammunition worth N1.4 million according to the Service, were hidden in 25 packs of 25 rounds, each containing in 14 cartons.
This was coming barley one month after the joint border patrol team, Sector 3, North Central comprising Kwara, Niger, Benue and Kogi intercepted 550 live pump action cartridges.
The command’s pioneer Area Comptroller, Hussaini Ahmed, made the disclosure while briefing reporters on the activities of the newly created area command.
He said “based on intelligence report, the command intercepted a Peugeot 504 vehicle with Reg. No. AP 448 AKD .On searching the vehicle, it was found to contain a large quantity of pump action cartridges suspected to be smuggled into the country.”
“This epic seizure,” he stated further, “is very commendable at the backdrop of the heightened insecurity in the country, should 3,620 rounds of live ammunition of his magnitude escaped into the country and fall into wrong hands ,the result will be appalling , devastating and disastrous.”
The new Kwara area command, which came into operation in 2019, Ahmed said, had also generated and remitted the total sum of N19.1 billion to the federal government coffers from July 2019 to December 2021.
