The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has seized 227 cartons of 56, 750, rounds of ammunition at Igboho area of Oyo State.
Also yesterday, the Oyo State Police Command said it intercepted about 3,500 live cartridges in Saki.
The Customs Area Controller, Mr. Richard Oteri, said yesterday in Ibadan that each carton “contained the red sar high speed of 250 cartridges of 12 gauges. ‘’
Oteri said his men could not arrest anybody in connection with the ammunition, adding that the suspects left their vehicle and fled immediately they saw the security personnel.
According to him, the smugglers of the ammunition concealed them in bags packed with dried cassava tubers in a lorry.
The Customs boss, who later handed over the ammunition to the Oyo State Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Musa Kimo, called on the law-abiding citizens and traditional rulers to always volunteer information that would assist in tackling smuggling.
He added, however, that the command generated N4.5 billion in the first quarter of the year as against N3.8 billion generated last year.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Muhammed Indabawa, while parading a suspect identified as Soliu Akanji before journalists, said policemen intercepted white car marked Lagos AW 965 KTU while on routine patrol in Isale Adini area of Saki.
According to him, on sighting the police, the driver suddenly stopped the car and the five occupants jumped out and fled to the bush, but the police pursued them and caught up with Akanji.
Indabawa said following the search of the vehicle, the cartridges were discovered in it.
He promised that the police would soon catch up with the fleeing suspects.
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