45,000 liters of adulterated Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) known as diesel valued at N21 million has been seized by The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Abuja.
The customs’ Comptroller on Enforcement, Headquarters, Mr. Kayode Olusemire disclosed this while displaying the items to journalists in Karu warehouse, Abuja, on Friday. Olusemire explained that the AGO, packaged in cellophane bags and concealed in 750 sacks of sawdust in two trailers.
He said the trailer containing adulterated oil left Port-Harcourt for Kaduna before it was intercepted in Abuja. The comptroller disclosed that one of the trailers was also embedded with two large tanks of about 3,000 liters for the purpose of these nefarious activities.
“This illegal consignment is packaged in nylons of about 30 liters in each and then used sacks of sawdust to conceal them.
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“It takes an intelligent work of our officers to accost the vehicles and detect the adulterated AGO.
“We have been hearing cases of people buying Kerosene and by the time they get home to light their stoves, the whole place would be engulfed in fire, and using this kind of adulterated oil could destroy people’s vehicles” he explained.
Olusemire said six persons had been arrested in connection with the seizure.
The seized items and the six suspects had been handed over to officials of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for prosecution. Similarly, the comptroller enforcement also displayed 237 of 50Kg bags of foreign rice intercepted in Marraba, Abuja.
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He said the bags of rice were concealed in a petrol tanker before the officials of NCS accosted the vehicle and seized them.
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