Customs intercepts ammunition, marijuana in Rivers

<p>The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Port Harcourt Court Area 11 Command, on Friday, handed two suspects, a pistol and 9mm ammunition to the Nigeria Police.</p>, <p>The command also said it generated over N246 billion between January and October.</p>, <p>The Command’s Comptroller, Baba Imam, made this known while addressing newsmen and making declaration of the seizures at the command’s corporate office, Onne, Rivers.</p>, <p>He, however, attributed his achievements to the renewed mindset engendered through training and retraining of officers as well as adequate provision of logistics and incentives to the service.</p>, <p>He stated that nine containers with a duty-paid value of over N1.16 billion were also confiscated by officers of the area command.</p>, <p>“The following goods were seized in 9 containers for contravening import prohibition laws: 724 bales of used clothing, 1,805 pieces of used tyres, four vehicles used in concealing 76.9kg special cannabis (marijuana), 2,070 cartons of tomato paste, among others.”</p>