The authority of the Nigerian Custom Service has revealed that its personnel uncovered fake currency notes worth N2.5m at Ihunbo security checkpoint along with Idiroko border town in Ogun State.
The Custom Service also revealed that 160 smuggled kegs of patrol and 40 drums of ethanol were also intercepted by the Ogun Area 1 Command.
The command disclosed this is in a press statement on Wednesday by the Command’s spokesman, Abdullahi Maiwada.
The statement reads in part “They further nefariously constructed a pipe with an outlet sited in a cassava farm. The fuel is then siphoned into a tank and then into jerry cans with an intention to export the said items in batches outside the country.
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“The Area Comptroller, Agbara Michael, therefore, appealed to the general public to embrace legitimate means of livelihood and avoid smuggling in all its ramifications.
“The eagle eye is all around Ogun state to halt new techniques adopted or will be brought up by smugglers to perpetuate their illicit acts.”
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