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Customs Struggling to Stop Rice Smuggling via sea – Hamid Ali
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Customs Struggling to Stop Rice Smuggling via sea – Hamid Ali

The Comptroller General of Customs, Hamid Ali on Thursday said that the lack of boats has prevented the Nigerian Customs Service from effectively stopping rice smuggling. He noted that the Customs had successfully stopped the smuggling of rice through land but struggled to stop it via high seas and waterways. See Also: Nigerian Customs To Deploy Drones At Seme Border Ali who revealed the customs’ shortcoming at the interface on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) organized by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, said it has made efforts to procure more boats to increase its fleet. “We don’t have adequate boats to patrol these waterways, and these waterways are the way smugglers use to smuggle rice into the country. We have now done our analysis, and ...