Customs arrests suspected wildlife trafficker, rescues baby gorilla in Kano

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has arrested a suspected wildlife trafficker and rescued a captive babe gorilla during a raid successful Kofar Mata, Kano State, successful what it described arsenic a large breakthrough against an amerciable primate trafficking network.

The operation, conducted connected July 7 by the NCS Special Wildlife Office of the Customs Intelligence Unit, alongside Focused Conservation, the Customs Police Unit and officers of the Kano/Jigawa Area Command, followed weeks of quality gathering and surveillance, according to a connection shared by the Service connected its societal media platforms connected Thursday.

According to the Officer-in-Charge of the NCS Special Wildlife Office, Assistant Comptroller of Customs Anuhu Mani, “the rescued babe gorilla had been transferred to veterinary attraction and is receiving specialised aesculapian attraction and rehabilitation.”

Mani said the cognition targeted syndicates progressive successful the illicit commercialized and proviso of protected primates wrong the Kano axis, adding that the occurrence of the raid demonstrated the worth of intelligence-driven operations and collaboration with conservation p...