Customs Joint Border Patrol arrest five foreigners with pistol, ammunition

By Tobi Adetunji.

Operatives of the Joint Border Patrol Team of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have arrested five illegal immigrants for allegedly being in possession of a locally-made pistol and seize goods worth the sum of N61m in 18days

The North Central Coordinator of the team Olugboyega Peters, who revealed this to journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday said the suspects had been handed over to the Nigeria Police and Immigration Service.

Giving more insight into the  operation, the Custom boss revealed that “the team had in the last 18 days made 43 seizures of contraband goods from Mokwas-Jebba, Gwanara, Okuta and other axis of Niger and Kwara states.

According to him, the seized goods include 23 units of used vehicles, 1,274 bags of foreign parboiled rice, one locally-made gun, pistol and eight cartridges, nine drums of diesel, 242 jerry-cans of petrol, seven motorcycles and jerry cans of 25 litres of groundnut oil.