The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, on Monday,16 June, 2014 reportedly intercepted military uniforms, bullet proof jackets, boots and other dangerous According to a report on The Nation, the items were discovered by Area Comptroller, Mr Folorunsho Adegoke at the Port and Terminal Multipurpose Services Limited (PTML), Tin-can Island Port.
It was accumulated that the importer of the cargo, Mr. Emmanuel Eko, was additionally apprehended at the terminal on Monday during routine examinations and checks.
According to the Customs Controller, the suspect, who claimed to be a member of the British Army and presented a Nigeria passport, was once apprehended at the command for dissimulating as a Nigerian army officer.
Among the military wares intercepted were camouflage uniforms, military jackets, military helmets,berets, boots, rain coats, armoured jackets, communication radio jackets, face masks, auditory perceiver sentinels and others.
Sources closed to the Command alleged that about 500 Army camouflage uniforms, 60 pairs of bullet proof jackets, 30 boots and other relegated items were brought to the port by the import
Adegoke apprised newsmen that the seized military uniforms and boots were commixed up with other items in a white bus shipped in from Britain.
“It is the practice that when we have military wares, they are mundanely imported by military officers and they will indite a letter to our headquarters to that effect, and when such goods arrive, they are always on ground to receive them.
“When you visually examine the list, one inclines to suspect foul play, moreso, the person bringing it is just an individual, hence the desideratum to do an exhaustive check on the consignment,” he verbally expressed.
The Customs chief verbally expressed the military wares could be acclimated to wreak havoc in any component of the country because of the wave of terrorism going on in the nortehrn part of the country.
It was amassed that the suspect has relucted to cooperate with Customs officers and nobody has come forward to verbalize on his behalf.
However, all the seized items and the suspect were handed to State Security Service, SSS, operatives in the presence of newsmen.
It could be recalled that the Nigerian soldiers recently apprehended some members of the Boko Haram sect who dissimulated in army uniforms to carry out terror attack in Maiduguri, Borno State.items at the Lagos port.
