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Nigerian Navy Impounds N130m Worth Of Foreign Rice In Calabar

Posted on January 5, 2020 By Admin No Comments on Nigerian Navy Impounds N130m Worth Of Foreign Rice In Calabar

By Emmanuel Unah

The suspects and the rice.

The Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Victory, at the weekend arrested and impounded two thousand and eighty nine bags of foreign parboiled rice illegally imported into Nigeria through the Calabar Water Channel.

Rear Admiral Vincent Okeke, Commander, NNS Victory, who paraded six suspects and the bags of rice at the naval base warehouse said the street value of the rice is estimated at one hundred and thirty million naira, stated that the rice was brought in from Cameroon through the Calabar Water Channel.

“NNS Victory patrol team arrested six men suspected to be rice smugglers at Utan Creek, off Tomshort Island with a large wooden boat laden with foreign parboiled rice smuggled from Cameroon”.

He gave the names of the suspects, four Cameroonians and one Nigerian, as: Tafili Redovili, Ayiseh Innocent, Makon Emmanuel Acillis, Billa Nwana, the Cameroonians and , Kayode Isaac, the Nigerian.

Okeke also revealed that before the arrest of the six suspects, his team had confronted another large wooden boat at Okposo Creek in Akwa Ibom State also laden with illegally imported foreign rice.

“On sighting the NNS Victory patrol team, the crew of the boat jumped into the sea and absconded, nonetheless, the boat was safely moved to our Base where one thousand, four hundred and eight bags of rice were offloaded and kept under our custody “. He gave the total sum of items recovered by his team in the past nine months as worth three hundred and fifty one million, eight hundred and seventeen thousand naira and threatened that anyone who tries to defy the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ette Ibas directives that all illegal activities in the country’s territorial water must cease would be arrested and made to face the law.

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