The Nigeria Customs Service, Eastern Marine Command, has seized a foreign fishing trawler in Oron allegedly used in smuggling of contrabands into the country.
The trawler marked K-081I51200 Felistar was conveying three hundred cartons of frozen chicken and one thousand six hundred cartons of baron wine.
Comptroller of the command, Abdulkarim Hussain said the smugglers came from Equatorial Guinea and passed through the Calabar channel before it was intercepted on the high sea at Oron waterways in Akwa Ibom.
Hussain said the fishing trawler had been cannibalised to suit smuggling purposes.
He said other seized goods worth four point zero three million naira by the command had been destroyed at the Oron Local Government Council premises.
The comptroller said the seized goods included apple, chemicals, second-hand clothing, hides and skin, rice, baron wine and used fridges, among others.
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