The headquarters compliance team of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun State axis at the weekend, impounded 2,438 cartons of smuggled poultry products valued at N13.1million.

Head of the team, Assistant Comptroller Shittu Abdulmaruf, disclosed that a patrol team seized the products after it conducted a detail search on a truck along Ijebu-Ode Sagamu Expressway.

According to him, the team also intercepted another truck, laden with imported shoes and canvas along the tollgate end of Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode Expressway.

Explaining further in a statement, Abdulmaruf said the items have been deposited at the Customs house, Ibadan “where 100 per cent examination will be conducted to ascertain the quantity and status of the consignment.”

In his reaction to the modalities being adopted by his team in suppressing smuggling, the team leader reiterated the determination of his team to “continually wreck havoc on smugglers.”

He maintained that effort is being made to strengthen and improve on their operational strategies in line with the change ideology of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

He further assured that his team; in collaboration with the other anti-smuggling units has the capacity and capability to degrade smugglers.

He said: “We are not unmindful of their desperation to smuggle, in terms of going the extra miles, using any available strategy. The good news is that we are always several steps ahead of them,”