The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on Friday, January 3, announced that it recovered over N100 million worth of fuel in a criminal hideout on the Lagos waterways in Badagry.
The Zonal Coordinator of Operation Whirlwind Zone A, comprising six states in the South West region, Kehinde Ejibunu, in a statement said officials intercepted 10,970 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) during the raid.
According Ejibunu, the commercial value of the feul is at N110 million and was stored in 16 plastic sacks and seven plastic jerrycans concealed in wooden boats.
His words, “The smugglers have now developed a new smuggling concept of PMS in sacks, although this re-emerged concept was an old method, but since the commencement of operation, this is the first time that we get across this method all the seizures made were intercepted in Jerrycans.
“A total of 61 sacks and seven Jerrycans were intercepted by operatives, with each sack containing one hundred and fifty litres (150). This translated into ten thousand nine hundred and seventy litres (10,970),” Ejibunu said.
