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March 20, 2019
The Customs Service, Seme Border Area Command, saysit has arrested a fake corps member suspected to specialise in smuggling bannedvehicles into Nigeria through Seme border post.
The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller MohammedGarba, made this known at a news conference on Wednesday in Seme.
According to him, the arrest was made on Sunday whenthe suspect was bringing in the vehicle without any document across the border.
Garba said the suspect claimed to be a serving youthcorps member.
The comptroller said that while crosschecking thevehicle document, it was discovered that the document was reading Primera,while in reality the car was Renault.
Garba said the case would soon be transferred to thepolice for his prosecution.
The suspect, however, denied the allegations, duringan interview with newsmen.
The suspect said he went to drop a person in Ghana and was on his way back to Nigeria when he was arrested by men of the customs command.