Customs intercept 40ft container laden with arms in Port-Harcourt

 The Nigerian Customs Services (NCS), Port Harcourt 2 Area Command, has intercepted a 40ft container laden with various types of arms at Onne Port, Rivers State.

The operatives also seized nine containers loaded with codeine.

The Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, displayed the intercepted weapons and drugs to journalists at Onne, Rivers State, on Monday, July 1.

Adeniyi said the weapons were brought into the country from Turkey.

He said the weapons and drugs were concealed in fairly used clothes, popularly known as Okrika.

Recall that a similar seizure was made in November 2023 by customs officials.

The weapons, according to the command, were discovered at the Onne Port inside a vehicle shipped into the country from the United States of America.

Conducting journalists around the seized containers, the Area Controller, Baba Imam, said the weapons were declared as household items and concealed inside the vehicle.

According to Imam, others banned items seized by the Customs include used clothes, used vehicles cannabis, codeine among others.

“We have briefed you about pistol and 100 pieces of live ammunition brought in a container coming from United States purported to be a household effects. In the course of examination our diligent and committed operatives were instrumental to sighting and discovering this piece of arm and then the ammunitions,” Imam said.