Nigerian Customs Intercepts 1,100 Sophisticated Rifles In Containers

The operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have once again uncovered hidden 1,100 pump-action rifles in a container at the Tin-Can Island Port in Lagos State.

The sophisticated weapons were concealed and smuggled into the country.

The Controller-General of Customs, Colonel Hameed Alli (retd), disclosed that the weapons were brought in from Turkey and concealed in a container purportedly conveying wash basins.

Following a thorough examination of the container, the weapons included 600 pieces of Georgia Magnum Black Pump-Action rifles among other rifles.

“If you add 600 plus 300, plus 200, that’s 1,100 pieces of pump-action rifles that were brought in under the guise of wash-hand basins and some other items,” he said.

A Customs officer and a clerk at the Tin-Can Island Command have been arrested as part of investigations.

The NCS had, in January 2017 intercepted 661 pieces of smuggled pump-action rifles in Lagos.