Customs intercepts three live pangolins in Lagos

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’, Ikeja, says it intercepted 3 unrecorded pangolins during an anti-smuggling cognition wrong the zone.

The Unit’s Public Relations Officer, Hussaini Abdullahi, disclosed this successful a connection connected Monday.

“Upon sighting the Customs patrol team, the suspected traffickers abandoned the consignment and fled into the surrounding swamp, leaving down the animals,” Abdullahi said.

Abdullahi said the animals were intercepted connected Monday greeting aft officers, acting connected credible intelligence, stopped a sack containing the endangered taxon hidden wrong a ligament mesh cage.

Acting Comptroller of FOU Zone ‘A’, Oladapo Afeni, described the seizure arsenic a large occurrence successful the Service’s ongoing combat against wildlife trafficking, smuggling and different cross-border crimes.

Afeni, who was represented by the Deputy Comptroller successful complaint of Enforcement, Oluwaseun Oguntuase, praised the officers for their alertness and speedy action.

He said the cognition shows the unit’s determination to “protect Nigeria’s biodiversity and interruption transgression networks utilizing the country’s borders and waterways.”

Afeni warned smugglers and their accomplices that FOU Zone ‘A’ volition prolong assertive patrols, intelligence-led operations and...