Customs seizes N2.35bn cocaine, intercepts contraband worth N5.5bn

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has announced the seizure of 6.35 kilogrammes of cocaine valued astatine N2.35 billion, alongside different contraband items, including explosives, petrol and synthetic cannabis, bringing the full worth of caller interceptions to implicit N5.5 billion.

The Comptroller of the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone A, Gambo Aliyu, disclosed this connected Tuesday successful Lagos portion handing implicit the confiscated narcotics and suspects to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

Aliyu said operatives of the portion thwarted 473 smuggling attempts wrong an eight-week period, describing the improvement arsenic a important breakthrough successful ongoing anti-smuggling operations.

He explained that the cocaine was intercepted during a targeted cognition on the Lagos-Abidjan corridor, adding that a 71-year-old fishy was arrested aft officers stopped a Toyota Highlander conveying the illicit substance.

According to him, the seizures were recorded crossed Lagos, Ogun, Oyo and Ondo states, with respective individuals taken into custody successful transportation with the operations.

The comptroller further revealed that 4 cylinders of mercury, each weighing 80 kilogrammes, were besides intercepted, noting that the substance is classified arsenic hazardous nether planetary biology regulations. He said the mercury would beryllium transferred to the National Envir...