The Katsina Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has arrested a suspected Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Sirajo Jelani Abdulkadir, with 25 bags of foreign parboiled rice, two cartons of spaghetti and macaroni.
DC Dalha Wada Chedi, the acting Comptroller of the Command, unveiled this on Wednesday while speaking on the achievements recorded by the command between February 1 and March 30, 2022.
He explained that the suspected police officer was arrested along the Katsina-Kano highway transferring the contraband in a Toyota Sienna space wagon with registration number LSD 315 FD.
DC Chedi said that the suspect was apprehended with a police identification card, Citizen for Peace and First Aid Mission of Nigeria, Nigeria Association of Agric Produce Dealers (NAAPD) and IMAN Federal Representative of Nigeria Tasforce, Kaduna State.
According to him, “The said Sienna LE with inscription ‘Federal Joint Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Against Multiple Taxes and Levies Along Nigerian Highway, Kaduna State Command’, was arrested along Katsina-Kano road.
The suspect claimed to be a police officer and was found with four different identification cards and a Nigeria police ballistic jacket, a handcuff, an Assistant Superintendent of Police’s rank badge and a can suspected to be tear gas.”
The ASP has been handed over to the state command of the Nigeria Police Force for further investigation.
He, however, announced the seizure of four used vehicles, 432 bags of foreign rice, 309 cartons of spaghetti, 68 jerricans of vegetable oil, 400 bags of Tiger nuts and 55 cartons of macaroni, among others worth over N42.7 million.
