Nigerian Navy arrests 8 rice smugglers

 

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The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Victory has arrested a 16-year-old and seven other suspected smugglers of 1,522 bags of foreign bags of rice in Calabar, Cross River.

The Commander of NNS Victory, Commodore Idi Abbas, told journalists on Wednesday that the suspects were intercepted in two batches.

Abbas said that the first group of four men were arrested on Sunday around Tom Short Island with a large wooden boat containing 1,482 bags of foreign parboiled rice while the second group was arrested on the 28 of August.

According to him, the confiscated items and eight suspects are hereby handed over to the Team Leader of Operation Border Drill for further investigations and prosecution.

“We have been up and doing as part of our patrol effort not only to check smuggling but also curb all forms of criminality within our waterways.

“We are aware that most times when kidnapping is carried out, the fastest way for them to escape is through the creeks, so we have placed our boats at vantage positions that you cannot go into the sea without being seen.

“We all know that times are hard but no matter how hard times are, there are other ways of earning a living legitimately,” he said.

Receiving the suspects and items, Superintendent of the Nigerian Customs Service, Chuks Ofili, said the confiscated items will be stored in the government warehouse awaiting investigation and prosecution.



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