The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has seized a 40ft container laden with various categories of arms, as well as nine containers loaded with codeine at Onne Port, Rivers State.
The Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, made the announcement during a press conference at Onne, Rivers State on Monday.
While displaying the intercepted weapons and drugs to journalists, he revealed that the weapons were brought into the country from Turkey.
He said the weapons and drugs were concealed in doors, furniture, plumbing fittings, leather bags with a total duty-paid value of N4,171,710,000.00.
These containers contained 1,050,000 bottles of CSC Cough Syrup with Codeine, 3,500,000 tablets of Trodol Benzhexol, and 720 bales of used clothes with the duty-paid value of ₦13,915,710,000.00.
“The container bearing the arms and ammunition will be handed over to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons for further investigation and prosecution.
“Licenses and permits of warehouses and terminals involved have been suspended, and officers found complicit will face severe sanctions,” said Adeniyi.
