The Nigeria Customs Service, Seme Border Command, intercepted 2,200 jerry cans of smuggled of petrol with a Duty Paid Value worth over N10 million between Dec. 1, 2017 till date. The Area Controller, Mohammed Aliyu, disclosed this on Monday through the command’s Chief Public Relations Officer, Mr Taupyen Selchang. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the total volume of PMS intercepted was 55,000 litres (2,200 x 25 litres). Aliyu said that the command was determined to combat the smuggling of petroleum products usually done by the smugglers using jerry cans and passing through the creeks and illegal routes. The controller explained that smuggling of petrol in jerry cans had been a recurring decimal which operatives of the NCS had always tried to suppress.

Source: Punch January 22, 2018 11:20 UTC