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Apapa Customs Intercepts Seven Containers of Expired Pharmaceutical and other Contraband

Apapa Customs Intercepts Seven Containers of Expired Pharmaceutical and other Contraband 


Kathy Kyari 

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Command has seized seven (7) containers of expired pharmaceuticals and other contraband worth N292m.

The Area Controller, Apapa Command, Comptroller B.O Olomu made this known in a statement issued by the Command's Public Relations Officer, SC Abubakar Usman on Thursday, 18th July 2024.

The statement reads “the command seized 2x40ft containers carrying twelve thousand (12,000) pieces of cutlass and machete; 2x40ft carrying four thousand, one hundred and twenty-nine (4,129) packages of frozen hen; 1x40ft container carrying three hundred and sixty-eight (368) jumbo bales of used second hand clothing; and 1x40ft container of expired pharmaceutical.”

“The duty paid value (DPV) of these seized items stood at two hundred and ninety-two million, two hundred and forty-four thousand,eight hundred and fifty-seven naira (292,244,857.00). It is pertinent to note that this type of importation is against schedule 3 of the revised import prohibition list of the Common External Tariff (CET) and violates section 233 of the Nigeria Customs Service Act 2023.”

Controller, BO Olomu, further emphasized the Command's commitment in ensuring that no consignment exits Apapa Port or any terminal under the command without undergoing proper examination.

He added that the command will continually sustain and improve on trade facilitation and maximum revenue collection without compromising the enforcement of its extant laws as they pertain to false declaration, concealment, under declaration and under valuation. 

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