Customs- The 661 Riffle Container Was Not Examined Before Exit

Lagos—The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has conceded that the container conveying 661 pump-activity rifles by the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, A, Ikeja of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, in Lagos a week ago was carried out of the ports without legitimate clearing process.


Talking at the summon yesterday, representative of the Apapa customs  command, Mr. Emmanuel Ekpa affirmed that neither physical examination nor scanning was directed on the container before it left the Lagos Port.
Agents at the port have however affirmed further to the media that the instance of the 661 rifles was not new,where containers exit Apapa port without being inspected. Ekpa said that the Area Controller of Apapa Customs had summoned the terminal operator; APM Terminals and the later had affirmed that the said container was not among those dropped for examination.

In May 2016, the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Maritime Command, Musa Katsina, captured a truck passing on a 40-foot container that he asserted was moved out of the ports at midnight. The container when inspected contained utilized tires that were not proclaimed and utilized vehicles that were under pronounced. He stated, "This said container was not dropped for examination. I can definitively disclose to you that no examination was led and It was not among the rundown of holders to be analyzed the day it was discharged. "At the point when containers are gotten, it will be conveyed for examination or filtering to figure out what it contained yet nothing of such was done on this." When inquired as to why it was discharged by the charge when it was not planned for examination, he stated, "no one but examination can uncover why the holder was discharged without checking or examination," he told our journalist.

" The rundown of all containers reserved for examination every day are being transmitted to customs, if APMT is to drop 200 containers in a day, it would be electronically transmitted to customs with the container numbers and officers will go for examination." Also, as opposed to suggestions that the cargo was implied for quick track, Ekpa said it was a typical container.for a while, clearing agent working at the Apapa port have blamed Customs officers for complicity at whatever point container leave the port without appropriate examination. The Coordinator, Save Nigeria Freight Forwarders Importers and Exporters Coalition, SNFFIEC, Ositachukwu Patrick said the summon was infamous for container flying.

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Vanguard 

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