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CUSTOMS PROBE ILLEGAL IMPORT OF MILITARY WEAR


Customs boss inaugurates committee to investigate illegal importation of military wears
Customs is investigating illegal importation of military wears, after officials seized batch of wears in recent past.
Two containers seized at Onne port each in July and August contained military camouflage.
`The first interception was found to contain 11 bales, each containing 400 pairs of new set of military camouflage uniform totaling 4400 sets,” said Customs spokesman Joseph Attah.
“The second interception was found to contain 620 sets of completely sewn military camouflage uniform and caps, 10,100 pieces of inner military T-Shirts, 512 pairs of military jungle boots.”
Customs comptroller-general Hameed Ali has set up a six-member committee to be headed by assistant comptroller-general Sanusi Umar, who also coordinates Zone C headquarters.
Preliminary investigations in the runup to setting up the committee have already led to the arrest of five people, including the importer of both consignments seized.
Ali urged the committee for a painstaking investigation be conducted to unravel all those “remotely connected to the criminal importation with a view to punishing offenders and preventing re-occurrence”.

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