The Nigeria Customs Service has handed over a total of 3,897 arms and ammunition to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons.
Speaking during the handing over ceremony yesterday at the Federal Operations Unit Zone, A Ikeja, the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, said that a total of 1,599 arms and 2,298 ammunition intercepted between 2018 and 2024 were handed over.
He highlighted that in May 2018, the service intercepted a significant batch of arms, including 440 pump-action rifles and accessories ingeniously concealed within 516 bags of plaster of Paris cement in a 20-foot container with the number PONU 210024/1.
Adeniyi stressed that through sustained intelligence operations, the service intercepted two additional containers with registration numbers, CMAU 189817/8 and GESU 255208/1, at Tincan Island Port, similarly concealing arms and ammunition among sanitary…
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