Customs
agents have sealed a senator’s house in Kano where they also impounded 13 Toyota
Hilux vans and a Land Cruiser Jeep suspected to have been smuggled into the
country.
Officials of the Nigerian
Customs’ Comptroller General Special Compliance Task Force carried out the
operation yesterday.
The house is said to belong to
Senator Barau Jibril, but the Senator could not be reached for comment
yesterday. All calls put to his mobile phone by our reporter could not go
through nor did he reply to text messages.
Leader of the special task force,
Chief Superintendent of Custom, Bala Dole, confirmed the seizure to newsmen in
Kano.
A source at Customs Headquarters in Kano said
that no one had come forward to claim ownership of the vehicles.
“As I am speaking with you now, nobody has approached
us to claim ownership of the vehicles. They are under our custody and the house
where the cars were kept has been sealed by our men,” he said.
The source said the vehicles were smuggled into
Nigeria through the Maigatari border in Jigawa state. He said officials of the
task force trailed the vehicles from Maigatari to the senator’s house,
impounded them and sealed the house.
The source added that the operation was carried out
based on a tipoff.
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