The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Tuesday said it had impounded 177 units of vehicles and other items including unused tyres and food items from smugglers through the Lagos border.
Comptroller, Federal Operations Unit Zone A, Ikeja, Lagos, Mr Mohammed Garba, disclosed this when members of the Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tarif visited the zone on oversight functions.
The visit was led by the Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Hope Uzodinma.
“After the goods are seized, they go through the process of condemnation through the court.
“The Customs and Excise Act provides that if officers of the service seized goods, they are going to be forfeited to the Federal Government.
“What we do is to urge the court to grant an order forfeiting the good to the Federal Government for the purpose of auctioning,’’ he said.
Garba added that NCS had also…
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