The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone C, Owerri, has impounded a Peugeot Boxer bus fully loaded with over 131 sacks of cannabis sativa popularly known as Indian Hemp estimated at N5, 566,500.
Also seized were 15 exotic cars secretly smuggled into the country through the bush path as well as 808, 50kg bags of foreign rice, all impounded by the Benin mobile patrol unit. Also, four suspects had been arrested in connection with the seizures.
Showcasing the cannabis sativa intercepted and arrested at about 2am by the Benin mobile patrol officers and men of the establishment at the Customs warehouses in Aduwawa, Benin, the Customs Area Comptroller, Kayode Olusemire, stressed that the driver of the bus, moved during the wee hours of the night to beat the vigilant operatives of the establishment.
“But luck ran against the driver when he tried to evade the operatives and was pursued, intercepted and arrested by the custom operatives along the Benin axis of…
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