Again, the Nigerian Customs Service has intercepted another cache of arms, the fourth time this year.
The Tin Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Tuesday uncovered a container suspected to contain yet another cache of arms imported from Turkey.
This is coming barely a week after the command intercepted a 20-foot container laden with 1,100 pump action rifles.
The container with number, CMAU189817/8 is believed to contain about 475 sets of pump-action riffles reportedly belonging to the same importer of the last one.
Daily Sun quoted a source as saying that the rifles were concealed with small connecting pipes.
“The container is owned by the same importer of the 1,100 guns. After a detailed profiling of the importer ordered by the Area Controller, it was discovered that he still has another container inside the port.
“So, officers were asked to fish out the container for examination. But I don’t know why they are hiding the identity of the importer”, the source hinted.
