CITIZENS COMPASS–Some suspected smugglers and their sympathisers have stoned some officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), in the Badagry area of Lagos over seized rice.
Spokesperson of the NCS, Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone A, Theophilus Daniya, disclosed this on Thursday.
He said the incident occurred in Badagry when MCS intercepted a Nissan Pathfinder car loaded with suspected bags of foreign parboiled rice at the Ikoga area of Badagry, Lagos State.
Duniya, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry.
According to him, a patrol team from the FOU, while on a routine patrol, intercepted a Nissan Pathfinder car that was loaded with suspected bags of foreign parboiled rice at Ikoga in Badagry.
“While taking the vehicle with its contents to the government warehouse at Ikeja, some suspected smugglers and their sympathisers mobilised themselves and started pedalling stones and other dangerous items at the officers.
The officers were gallant and professional in their conduct as they safely maneuvered their way out with the intercepted goods to the warehouse without any casualty,” he said.
Duniya said that nobody sustained an injury or was killed contrary to some reports. He urged parents and community leaders to discourage their children from engaging in criminal activities that could put their well-being and that of others at risk.
