Officials of Operation Whirlwind Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service, on New Year eve, raided some criminal hideouts along the Lagos waterways in Badagry and intercepted 10,970 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as Petrol stocked in plastic sacks concealed in wooden boats.
“The smugglers have now developed a new smuggling concept of PMS in sacks, although this re-emerged concept was an old method, but since the commencement of operation, this is the first time that we get across this method all the seizures made were intercepted in Jerrycans.
“A total of 61 sacks and seven Jerrycans were intercepted by operatives, with each sack containing one hundred and fifty litres (150). This translated into ten thousand nine hundred and seventy litres (10970).
“The said intercepted products were evacuated from the canoe with the re-enforcement from the Nigeria Military from Badagry Barrack. It was a very successful operation without any casualty, although there was an attempt by the smugglers” he stated.
