SON impounds 560 bags of sugar worth N9.15m

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Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON).

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has impounded a truck loaded with 560 bags of contraband sugar worth 9.15 million in Kebbi.

The SON Coordinator in Kebbi, Alhaji Jibril Muhammad disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Birinin Kebbi on Monday.

”We impounded a truck loaded with 560 bags of contraband sugar smuggled from Brazil through Kebbi State borders with Benin and Niger Republic.

”The seized products, 50kg each, had branded names of White Crystal Sugar Nardini Agro industrial and LTDA Industrial Brazillaira, with N15,000 Birnin-Kebbi market price each per bag, all worth N9.15 million,” he said.

Muhammed said half bag of the products were also seized by the SON during shops to shops searching at the Birnin-Kebbi central market, making total 610 and half bags of smuggled sugar seized within…

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