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Nigerian Customs seize 661 automatic guns in Lagos
Operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) stationed in Lagos have seized a cache of arms made up of 661 automatic guns, Ripples Nigeria has gathered. The seizure was made on Monday.
Though details of the arms haul are still sketchy, the Comptroller-General, NCS, reading from a prepared document, said that a trailer was intercepted by his men around the Mile 2/Apapa axis of Lagos, and upon routine check was discovered to be carrying 49 boxes of pump-action rifles.
He said some arrests had been made, and that among those being detained were the Customs operatives who cleared the container. The agency, he said, was still in search of the importers of the items who had allegedly declared the import as steel doors.
Only recently, the NCS handed over two helicopters to the Nigerian Airforce after the Rivers State government failed to meet the financial obligations required for clearing the items.
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Animashaun Ayodeji
January 30, 2017 at 6:38 pm
Despite banning importation of cars by land, these criminals still smuggled weapons into the country, are they preparing for war or what?
seyi jelili
January 30, 2017 at 9:57 pm
Yes, i am sure this is the handiwork of the biafrans promoter. They are acquiring weapons of mass destruction to destroy buhari’s government but they will always fail.
chichi emerue
January 31, 2017 at 4:21 am
Wow if the weapons is for war am so happy because that is what we the biafrans want so that it can protect us from boko haram
Nonso Ezeugo
January 31, 2017 at 4:23 am
Maybe they are because of the crisis of creating Biafra war
Animashaun Ayodeji
January 30, 2017 at 6:39 pm
I hope Nigerian customs will get to the root of this guns seized, 661 automatic guns are not small. Even Nigerian police didn’t import such weapon in recent times. Only God knows where these country is going to with illegal activities
JOHNSON PETER
January 30, 2017 at 8:45 pm
Our customs are trying nowadays. They intercepted fake aircrafts and delivered to Nigerian airforce, now again ,they seized armunitions. Hammed Ali is a boss.
Joy Madu
January 31, 2017 at 4:16 am
If our customs keep doing this to protected this country i believe there won’t be fake goods in this country anymore of
Margret Dickson
January 30, 2017 at 8:59 pm
I hope Nigerian customs will get to the root of this guns seized, 661 automatic guns are not small. Even Nigerian police didn’t import such weapon in recent times. Only God knows where these country is going to with illegal activities
Amaka Okoro
January 31, 2017 at 4:12 am
Yes oooo because we don’t know their next plan. We just have to becarful with were we go
yanju omotodun
January 30, 2017 at 10:05 pm
Until I read the full story, I might not be able to comment because I want to know who the importers of these guns are, or may be they are from Rivers state again like armoured aircrafts.
Amarachi Okoye
January 31, 2017 at 4:28 am
Our customs are doing a great job. They should keep it up and make this country a better nation