Smugglers operating at the Badagry-Seme
border tried a fast one on operatives of the Nigeria Customs by
packaging smuggled rice as dead bodies. The ambulance, ‘corpses,’ and
‘attendant.’ The mobile patrol team leader, Chief Superintendent of
Customs, Mr. Ozah M., said the team noticed the frequency with which the
said ambulance was patronising the international route with the ‘dead
body,’ a development they thought was becoming alarming. They stopped
the ambulance, a Volvo with number plates DV 74 EKY, for proper
examination. The ambulance was discovered to be carrying eleven bags of
imported rice that was carefully arranged and wrapped as corpses,
leading to the arrest of a suspected smuggler, Mr. Moses Degbogbahun,
who brought in the commodity. The management of Seme Command, however,
warned that no amount of smuggling antics along Seme border route will
go undetected by the eagle eyes of officers and men of the Command. The
Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Taupyen Selchang, said the
suspect was still undergoing investigation for possible prosecution.
