The Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) joint border patrol team, Sector IV, reported seizing a consignment of sex enhancement pills worth N19.6 duty-paid value in Sokoto state.
While briefing journalists in Sokoto, Coordinating Comptroller Mr. Kolapo Oladeji stated that trucks carrying food supplies were also intercepted at the Kajji settlement on the Sokoto-Kebbi route.
According to him, the intercepted truckloads of food were travelling to the Niger Republic across the Kebbi border, which violated laws.
“We will leave no stone unturned to block food smuggling out of the country because of the current situation in the country.
“We all know that prices of food items have skyrocketed because of the activities of some Nigerians. Our people are hungry, but they prefer to take the food to other countries despite the border closures imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
He assured that the Customs will continue to trail smugglers, and block their routes, adding that whoever is caught in the nefarious act will face the full wrath of the law.