Naval personnel attached to the Nigerian Navy
Ship Victory in Calabar, have arrested a large
wooden boat laden with 3,574 bags of foreign
rice worth N53.6 million smuggled from
Cameroon republic.
They also arrested three suspects found in the
boat that came from Cameroon and heading
for Calabar.
NNS
Commander of NNS Victory, Commodore
Julius Nwagu, said on Thursday in Calabar that
the arrest was made along the Calabar
waterway in the early hours of Feb. 27, when
they got information about the activities of the
suspected smugglers.
Addressing newsmen at the NNS Victory Jetty
before handing over the items and suspects to
the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Nwagu
said that it took the command two and half
days to offload the bags of rice from the
wooden boat.
“In the early hours of Feb. 27, we got
information about a boat laden with rice and
my patrol team arrested the boat and three
suspects on board. We brought the boat to
base and offloaded the rice.
“It took us two and a half days to offload the
content. After counting, we got 3, 574 bags
valued at N53.6million.
“We will hand them over to the Nigerian
Customs