Man smuggled rice into Nigeria as corpse



The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria
Customs Service (NCS) has arrested a suspect,
Mr. Moses Degbogbahun, for allegedly being in
possession of smuggled imported bags of rice,
which were concealed as dead body in a Volvo
ambulance car.
The regular road user was arrested along
Aradagu Tollgate Road at about 6am yesterday,
according to a statement by the Command
Public Relations Officer, Mr. Taupyen Selchang,
who cited the mobile patrol team to say that
they became suspicious as the said ambulance
was patronising the international route with the
alleged “dead body” too frequently.

This curiosity, they said, prompted its stoppage
for examination, only to discover that it was
carrying 11 bags of imported rice carefully
arranged and wrapped as corpse.
Meanwhile, alarmed at the latest antics, the
management of Seme Command has warned
that no amount of smuggling tactics along the
border route would go undetected by the patrol
team.

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