Custom Seizes 40ft Container Loaded With Arms Heading to South East

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has impounded a 40-foot container loaded with guns and ammunitions.

Daily Report Nigeria reports that the container seized at Ports & Terminal Multi-Services Ltd (PTML) and Tin-Can Island Ports. Monday in Lagos, was heading for an undisclosed location in the South East, according to the acting comptroller-general of Customs, Adewale Bashir Adeniyi.

Adeniyi said the container was intercepted during a joint inspection exercise between Customs, Nigeria Police, the Department of State Security (DSS), and the National Drug Law Enforcement and Administration (NDLEA).

“On July 5, 2023, during a joint operation with the Nigeria Police, the Department of State Security, the National Drug Law Enforcement and Administration, and the Customs Intelligence Unit at the Ports Terminal and Multi Services Limited (PTML) Command, a thorough physical examination of a 40ft container was conducted,” Adeniyi said.

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“The examination revealed the concealment of 10 dangerous arms and various rounds of live ammunition inside plastic drums. The details are: three new Pump Action rifles and one new unit of an armed rifle; six new different makes of pistols; one new millennium G2 pistol; one new sarsilmaz SAR-9X pistol; one new Lugger Security-9 pistol; one new Taurus Banbridge G3C pistol; one new SCCY CPX-2 pistol, one new Taurus (63 pistol); 14 empty magazinesd; and 442 rounds of live ammunition.

“The clearing agent, Mr Shokunbi Olanrewaju of Shooler Global International Ltd and Mr Joseph Nwadiodor, who was expected to take delivery of the container, are currently detained as suspects in connection with the seizure.

“Similarly, within the same period, the Tin-Can Island Port Command of the Service, while acting on credible intelligence; subjected a 1by40ft container to 100 per cent physical examination with the relevant security agencies at the ports,” he explained