The Operation Whirlwind of the Nigeria Customs Service has announced fresh seizure of 94,550 litres of petrol.
The seized containers of petrol, intercepted mostly at international borderlines across the country, were believed to be meant to be smuggled out of the country.
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi who announced this in Yola, Adamawa State on Wednesday, said the seizures resulted from further anti-smuggling operations made after he first addressed the media on the activities of the Operation Whirlwind in June this year.
The CGC had called a press briefing in Yola on June 10, 2024 and announced that the special operational arm of the customs service which was launched less than a month earlier had seized 150,950 litres of PMS valued at N105,965,391 from across the country.
The CGC who was represented during the press briefing of Wednesday by a deputy controller general, Olaniyi Olajugun, said the latest seizures were indications of the resolve of the customs service to stop the activities of people smuggling petrol from across Nigeria to other countries.
“Today, we are here to re-present the achievements of the Operation Whirlwind against smugglers who
are weakening our goal for growth in industrial output,” the CGC said.