Customs Impound Expired frozen chicken, poultry products in Lagos
The Federal Operations Unit Zone A of the
Nigeria Customs Service has impounded over 10,000 cartons of frozen
poultry products, with a duty paid value of N54m,Punch reports that
The seizures were said to have been made in two separate operations that occurred on December 17 and 18 respectively.
The Controller FOU Zone A, Deputy
Controller Turaki Adamu, represented by Assistant Comptroller of
Customs, Adamu Mohammed, said at a press briefing in Lagos that the
poultry products, which had been smuggled into the country through
Cotonou, were unfit for human consumption.
He
said, “On December 18 2014, acting on a tip off, Mohammed led a team to
the Agege axis of Lagos State where they impounded three trucks
containing over 6,550 cartons of frozen poultry products. The day
before, another team had intercepted a Volvo truck along the
Ojodu-Berger axis of Lagos State containing over 3,462 cartons of
poultry products.
Now these products were shipped from
Europe to Cotonou and we know how long it takes to get there. It would
take more time still for the smugglers to move these products from
Cotonou to Nigeria so they would need to be preserved. The chemicals
used by the smugglers to preserve the poultry products were not good.” he said one suspect has been arrested in connection to the seizures.
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