High Sea Smuggling: Customs partners with Navy
Faced with the challenges of inadequate ocean worthy vessels facing its Western Marine Command, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has been partnering with the Nigerian Navy to combat smuggling on the high seas
This was disclosed to Business and Maritime Summit during an exclusive interview by the Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr. Wale Adeniyi.
According to him, no fewer than 300 Marine Officers are being trained at the nation’s Marine Academy, Oron in Akwa Ibom State to shore up the personnel requirements of the special Customs unit.
He added that there is a Special Presidential Intervention Fund put in place to procure between six to eight patrol boats that are expected to be delivered shortly.
It would be recalled that many officers of the Western Marine Command were killed on the high seas in Lagos few years ago as the tackled smugglers who were apparently better armed and equipped than them.
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