Marine team of the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), Dr. Ahmed Audi, has intercepted two hundred and ninety two bags of smuggled foreign rice at Eleko Beach, Lagos.
Acting on intelligence report from it’s monitoring team, three suspects were arrested conveying the smuggled goods from Cotonou, Benin Republic aboard three wooden boats.
In a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, (PRO), Babawale Afolabi, contains that the Corps has heightened surveillance to ensure know criminals and their activities are reduced.
Meanwhile, the CG has ordered the suspects to be handed over to the appropriate authorities for prosecution.
Dr. Audi said “the corps will continue to pursue its statutory functions of protection of critical national assets and infrastructure, fight against vandals and vandalism and economic saboteurs in the country and will continue to; in collaboration…
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