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Senate orders Customs to return rice seized in Ibadan markets
The Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges has directed the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to return the bags of rice and money which its officials allegedly seized recently from some shops in the Oja Oba and Bodija markets in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Officials of the Nigeria Customs Service had last week stormed the Oja Oba market and carted away eight truckloads of rice and money found in the shops of the affected traders.
This clandestine operation came barely a month after they raided the Bodija International Market, where they also carted away numerous bags of rice.
Customs invades another Ibadan market, seizes truckloads of foreign rice
An official said the act which established the Customs empowered it to break into any shop or warehouse whenever it suspects contraband items are stocked in them.
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Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone A invaded Oja Oba Market in Ibadan in the early hours of Saturday and carted away truckloads of foreign bags of rice.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the officers broke into shops and warehouses in the market taking away no fewer than eight truckloads of bags of rice.
Ayetoro attack: Hoodlums attacked our personnel ― Customs
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By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta
Authorities of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU) have declared that it was hoodlums who attacked its personnel in Kikelomo area of Ayetoro, the headquarters of Yewa North local government area of Ogun State on Tuesday while carrying out their constitutional duty of anti-smuggling.
The Public Relations Officer of the FOU unit Zone A of the NCS, DSC Theophilus Duniya who disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, said three Customs officers sustained various degrees of injuries while one person was hit by stray bullet during the attack.