Compliance Task Force set up by the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), retired Colonel Hameed Ali, has impounded 223 vehicles, 13 of which belong to a senator in Kano state.
The Task Force Zonal Commander, Bala Dole told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Kano today, Monday, that among the vehicles seized from the senator, whose name he would not make public; are 12 Toyota Hilux and one Land Cruiser Jeep.
Bala Dole said that the 13 vehicles were trailed from Maigatari in Jigawa state, following an intelligence report, indicating that they were smuggled into Nigeria via land borders.
“Based on the intelligence report, the vehicles were 30 in number but we were able to trail 13 of them 12 of which were hidden in the senator’s compound. We sealed the house and retrieved the vehicles and they are now in our custody.”
There are three senators currently representing Kano State. They are Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Kano central; Barau Jibrin, Kano North and Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya, Kano South. All are under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The task force also seized other items, including foodstuff worth N269.5 million in Kano and Jigawa states within eight months.
The items included 9,757 bags of rice, 2,916 of foreign supergetti, 2,770 cartons of foreign vegetable oil and 999 cartons of macaroni.
Others items seized are 889 veils of second hand clothes, 50 used school bags, 110 cartons of new foreign shoes, 956 bags of mosquito coil and six fairly used cars.
“The total value of the seizure made by the task force since it was established in July 2016, excluding the 13 Senator’s vehicles, is N269.5 million. We are yet to determine the cost of the 13 vehicles belonging to the Senator.”
NAN. [myad]
