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Customs seize tomato pastes, donkey skins worth N99,684,170

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The Nigeria Customs Service [NCS] in Kano has intercepted and evacuated 8, 711 cartons of foreign tomato paste, valued at N33, 711, 570.00.

The NCS also seized about 8, 136 pieces of unfinished donkey skin valued at N65, 972, 600.00.

The Comptroller of Customs in charge of the command, Mr Nasiru Ahmed, said the donkey skins were to be exported to China.

Ahmed, who decried the gradual extinction of donkeys, following the activities of unscrupulous businessmen who slaughtered them for illicit business, advocated stiffer punishment for smugglers, considering the enormity of the harm they had caused to the economy.

He said the impounded products were valued at N99,684,170.

The comptroller decried the new device of smugglers, who he said used luxury cars to smuggle foreign rice into the country, in a bid to beat security checks.

He said,

“We are really tackling smugglers. The border closure policy is telling on them. We are hitting them hard and we will not relent in our efforts to ensure that smugglers relocate from Nigerian borders.”

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