Customs Intercepts 1,149 Jerry Cans of Petrol at Nigeria-Cameroon Border Town The Nigerian Customs Service has intercepted 1,149 jerry cans, each including 30 litres of petroleum products, at a border town in Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State.
The petrol, valued at N33.7 million, was intercepted by the Operation Whirlwind of the Customs Service under the Adamawa/Taraba Command at Kan-Iyaka, a border town between Nigeria and Cameroon Republic in Sardauna Local Government Area of the state.
The Customs operatives likewise arrested those behind the attempt to smuggle the petroleum product from Nigeria to Cameroon Republic.
Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs, while briefing journalists at the Customs House in Jalingo on Friday, disclosed the interception was made possible due to the hard work and commitment of the officers of Operation Whirlwind and other security operatives in preventing smuggling across Nigerian borders.
He expressed satisfaction with the vigilance and temerity exhibited by the officers while carrying out the mission that led to the interception of the petrol products.
The Comptroller-General further reported that in recent weeks, Customs had witnessed a troubling enlarge in petroleum smuggling activities across the North-East zone frontier, superlatively along the Adamawa and Taraba corridors.
He accentuated that targeted operations in those areas had reported strategic transit points for cross-border petroleum diversion.
He reported the activities of petrol smugglers were creating artificial scarcity of the product and distorting supply chains in vulnerable communities, superposing that such activities further funded enterprises that undermined regional security.
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Published 3/15/2025