The Adamawa/Taraba Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has seized 1,868 24-litre and 30-litre Jerry cans and one 220-litre drum of contraband petrol.

The command, at a press briefing on Tuesday, mentioned it additionally seized 10 bales and two sacks of secondhand garments.

The seizures, made most commonly alongside Adamawa Taraba global border traces, had been effected throughout the final one month.

The pieces are estimated to have accountability paid price of N58,117,550, consistent with the controller of the command, Comptroller Mohammed Tako.

Addressing newsmen on the house command headquarters in Yola, the controller mentioned the seizures are efforts of his command to curb smuggling and give protection to the rustic.

“We will never relent in our resolve to prevent illegal exportation of petroleum and other items across Nigerian borders,” he vowed.

Details of the seized pieces come with 410 25-litre Jerry cans of petrol on the Mubi-Sahuda axis; a complete of 962 25-litres of Jerry cans on two separate dates on the Fufore-Guri axis; 141 Jerry cans, 25 litres every, on the Wuro-Boki axis, all in Adamawa State; in addition to 625 Jerry cans of 30 litres every in Taraba State.

The house controller indicated that the ten bales and two sacks of secondhand garments in his custody had been confiscated on the Mubi-Sahuda axis in Adamawa State.