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Home » Travellers Stranded for Hours as Customs, Smugglers Clash in Ogun

Travellers Stranded for Hours as Customs, Smugglers Clash in Ogun

by LiveFromNaija Reporter
October 17, 2021
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Many travellers were stranded for hours on Saturday in traffic gridlock on the Abeokuta-Siun-Sagamu Expressway, Ogun State during a clash between officials of the Nigeria Customs Service and some suspected smugglers, The PUNCH report recently reveals.

The travellers were stranded at Kobape junction via Abeokuta, in the Obafemi- Owode Local Government Area of the state.

A source who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the newspaper that the customs officials attached to the NCS Federal Operating Unit  Zone ‘A’ Lagos,  were on the trail of the suspected smugglers trafficking foreign parboiled rice.

The operatives reportedly seized some of the smugglers’ cars loaded with bags of rice.

The action, the source added, prompted the smugglers to mobilise themselves leading to a gun duel between them and the customs men.

Following the report, some accounts claimed lives were lost from both sides but the newspaper could not immediately confirm whether or not there was any casualty in the incident.

It was also gathered that the gun duel forced the motorists on both sides of the expressway to park their vehicles and waited for over two hours until a contingent of security agencies comprising the army, police and Amotekun came around to disperse the smugglers.

The report said that the smugglers parked at Kobape junction, along the Abeokuta-Sagamu highway, to resist the officers on their trail.

A source who was a victim said some of the smugglers pelted the law enforcement agents with stones, while a few of them wielded cutlasses, adding that to repel the smugglers, the customs officers fired gunshots, thereby throwing residents of the area and commuters into confusion.

The report further said that travellers on the highway were stranded as they took cover in the Kobape community. A number of drivers reportedly abandoned their vehicles and fled into the forest.

When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of Customs at FOU, Theophilus Duniya, confirmed the clash.

He, however, said he had not been fully briefed on the incident, promising to call back and give details of the incident, according to the report.

He had however yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.

Tags: CustomsOgun State

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