The Adamawa/Taraba Space Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has seized 1,868 24-litre and 30-litre Jerry cans and one 220-litre drum of contraband petrol.
The command, at a press briefing on Tuesday, mentioned it additionally seized 10 bales and two sacks of secondhand garments.
The seizures, made principally alongside Adamawa Taraba worldwide border traces, had been effected inside the final one month.
The gadgets are estimated to have obligation paid worth of N58,117,550, in line with the controller of the command, Comptroller Mohammed Tako.
Addressing newsmen on the space command headquarters in Yola, the controller mentioned the seizures are efforts of his command to curb smuggling and shield the nation.
“We’ll by no means relent in our resolve to forestall unlawful exportation of petroleum and different gadgets throughout Nigerian borders,” he vowed.
Particulars of the seized gadgets embrace 410 25-litre Jerry cans of petrol on the Mubi-Sahuda axis; a complete of 962 25-litres of Jerry cans on two separate dates on the Fufore-Guri axis; 141 Jerry cans, 25 litres every, on the Wuro-Boki axis, all in Adamawa State; in addition to 625 Jerry cans of 30 litres every in Taraba State.
The world controller indicated that the ten bales and two sacks of secondhand garments in his custody had been confiscated on the Mubi-Sahuda axis in Adamawa State.
