Customs To Return Food Items Seized From Smugglers To Markets

The Nigeria Customs Services (NCS) has said all food items seized along the nation’s borders would be returned to the markets to reduce high prices.

The Service made this known on Sunday, while revealing the latest activity of the Comptroller-General of the NCS, Bashir Adeniyi during his visit to Katsina State.

Adeniyi on Saturday, visited former President Muhammadu Buhari and His Royal Highness, the Emir of Daura, Dr Farouk Farouk in Katsina where he held conversations concerning the protection of the nation’s borders.

Speaking with the former president, Adeniyi said, “I will also use this occasion to brief you on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directives that all trucks of food carrying exports across the border that were seized by Customs be returned to the traders with the hope that they would plough them back into the Nigerian markets.”

According to him, the Service is responsible for ensuring that food security becomes an integral and essential element of national power.

He said, “I would like to assure you that we may continue to work for the peace, progress, and security of Nigeria, those key ideals that you have worked for, in all your years, in your career in the military, and what you did as president and now as a statesman."