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Customs Intercept ‘Dangote Trucks Loaded with Smuggled Rice in Ogun

Tare Magbei
Tare Magbei
Published: April 15, 2025
Last updated: April 15, 2025
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Customs Intercept ‘Dangote Trucks Loaded with Smuggled Rice in Ogun | Daily Report Nigeria
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun 1 Area Command, has impounded two trucks suspected to be that of Dangote Cement Factory loaded with smuggled foreign rice in Ibese, Ogun State.

The trucks had Dangote inscribed on them.

One of the trucks has a registration number, ICT-17F-014, while the other was not registered.

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Customs Intercept ‘Dangote Trucks Loaded with Smuggled Rice in Ogun | Daily Report Nigeria

Addressing newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Idiroko border, the Controller, Bamidele Makinde, said that each of the two trucks were conveying 882 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice along Abeokuta axis when his officers stopped them.

He, however, could not confirm whether or not the trucks belong to Dangote Cement, saying most of owners of the trucks might be franchisees of the factory.

Malinda said that between the month of May and June 27, a total of 8,417 bag of rice, valued at N131,145,277, were seized by the NCS in Ogun.

He added that the agency generated N12,818,181 from the importation and auction of petrol intercepted at different locations and exit points to the Republic of Benin during its anti-smuggling operations

Also, a tanker containing 45,000 litres of adulterated diesel was also impounded from a suspected bunker.

The customs boss also stated that illicit drugs and narcotics worth N221,820,820 were recovered from smugglers.

“The cumulative estimated Duty Paid Value (DPV) of all the seizures between May and June 2022 amounts to One Billion, Two Hundred and Ninety Million, One Hundred and Eight Thousand, Six Hundred and Eight Naira, Zero Kobo only (N1,290,108,608.00).”

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