The Commandant General’s monitoring unit, Western Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested three suspects and recovered three wooden boats loaded with 292 bags of rice.

The wooden boats were ferrying the rice suspected to be smuggled into Nigeria, from the Republic of Benin.

The unit, acting on intelligence, had intercepted the exhibits and arrested the suspects, all male, around 1:30 a.m. last Monday, at the Eleko Beach axis, without any operational glitch.

The suspects and exhibits were subsequently handed over to the representative of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Lagos, Superintendent of Customs, Mailafiya Magaji, by the Commander, Commandant General (CG), Marine Monitoring, Western Command, Chief Superintendent of Corps, Emmanuel Oloyede.

Speaking during the handover, at the unit base in Ijora, Lagos, the State NSCDC Commandant of Corps, Usman Ishaq Alfadarai, said the arrest was a proof of the CG, Ahmed Audi’ s resolve to stamp out economic sabotage, illegal oil dealings and reckless vandalism of critical national assets and infrastructure.

The NSCDC also warned all unrepentant criminals and unscrupulous elements causing untold hardship, food scarcity, vandalism and economic sabotage in the state to desist from it, or face the full wrath of the law, when apprehended or found culpable.

Superintendent of Customs, Magaji, appreciated NSCDC for its efforts, describing the collaboration as one of the best strategies to end all forms of economic sabotage and heinous crimes in the society.