Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have intercepted trucks that were carrying food items at Kajji community on the Sokoto-Kebbi road heading to the Niger Republic through the Kebbi border.
The Coordinating Comptroller Mr Kolapo Oladeji,made this known at a media briefing in Sokoto on Friday.
Oladeji revealed that a consignment of sex enhancement drugs worth N19.6million duty-paid value in Sokoto State were also seized and said the seizure was carried out by joint border patrol team, sector IV.
He decried that despite the alarming scarcity of food items leading to high costs of living in the country,Nigerians were still smuggling food to other countries adding ,
“We will leave no stone unturned to block food smuggling out of the country because of the current situation in the country.
“We all know that prices of food items have skyrocketed because of the activities of some Nigerians. Our people are hungry, but they prefer to take the food to other countries despite the border closures imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).”
He said that the service would not relent in trailing smugglers, and block their routes adding that anyone caught would face the law.
