While announcing the arrest in a
statement on Tuesday, the Public Relations Officer of the command,
Taupyen Selchang, said that this was a new strategy adopted by the
smugglers to evade the operatives of the NCS.
Selchang said that smugglers also used
waste disposal truck as tool of disguise, adding that men of the command
examined a waste disposal truck and found 534 pieces of used tyres.
He said the two suspects arrested in
connection with the crime were undergoing interrogation and prosecution
by the legal department of the service.
The statement quoted the Area
Controller, Seme Command, NCS, Mohammed Aliyu, as saying that no amount
of antics devised by smugglers would go undetected by the officers.
He added that implementing the policy of
the Federal Government on the ban of new and fairly used vehicles
through the land border was a task that must be done by officers of the
command.
He reiterated that as an institution
that enforced government’s policies, the compliance level of the ban on
importation of new and fairly used vehicles through the land border that
commenced on January 1 was still in force and would be sustained.
Aliyu warned smugglers who would not
desist from using the Seme route would continue to count their losses
behind bars when arrested and prosecuted to serve as deterrent to
others.
The Customs CAC also re-emphasised the
need to beef up security along the border considering the security
threat of illegal importation of arms through the nation’s sea ports.
He stated that the border command was
strategising and deploying high level of intelligence and professional
competence, fortifying the entire land border in order to foil all
attempts of arm smuggling and other trans-border crimes into the
country.
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