Travellers, Customs at loggerheads over seized vehicles at checkpoints

Travellers have condemned the action of some officers of the Nigeria Customs Service for seizing their vehicles after an order to remove illegal checkpoints was handed down to them by the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.).

Punch correspondent gathered that officers from the NCS, Federal Operations Unit, Owerri, said to be on information patrol on Wednesday July 26 and Thursday July 27, impounded cars from travellers heading for the South-East along the Benin-Ore expressway.

But the Public Relations Officer of the NCS, Mr. Joseph Attah, said that whenever officers received information about smuggled goods, they had the mandate to set up temporary checkpoints and demand for import duty for those goods.
Punch, 3 August, 2017

 

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