Customs Intercept ‘Dangote Trucks’ Loaded With Smuggled Rice In Ogun
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun 1 Area Command, has impounded two long trucks suspected to be that of Dangote Cement Factory, Ibese, Ogun State.
Daily Post reports that the trucks were loaded with bags of smuggled foreign rice at the time they were intercepted.
The trucks reportedly have Dangote Cement logo clearly inscribed on them.
Daily Post further reports that one of the trucks has the registration number, ICT-17F-014, while the other was unmarked
Addressing newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Idiroko border, the Controller, Bamidele Makinde, said he could not confirm whether or not the trucks belong to Dangote Cement, adding that most of owners of the trucks might be franchisees of the factory.
Makinde revealed that each of the two trucks were conveying 882 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice along Abeokuta axis when his officers stopped them.