… As Bamisaiye Hands Over N96M worth of Seized Cannabis Sativa to NDLEA
Indeed, the Western Marine Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is often fortunate to be blessed by successive high standing, daring and professionally forward looking leadership with upward achievement being recorded in the last couple of years despite challenges of lack of proper surveillance tools to adequately undertake such hazardous duty on waters.
Comptroller Paul Bamisaiye, CAC WMC Addressing newsmen during the briefing
In the space of less than a month of assumption of office as the substantive Customs Area Controller (CAC), the newly deployed customs boss of the Western Marine arm of the service, Comptroller Paul Bamisaiye has hit the ground running hitting waterways smugglers below the belt and achieving tremendous contraband seizure feat, especially Cannabis Sativa which is the current seen as the current reigning trade for the unscrupulous elements.
In its continued efforts to purge the Western Waterways of the offensive activities of smuggling, the command recently intercepted and seized Seventeen (17) Sacks containing One Thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty Seven (1,257) loaves of Cannabis Sativa with a combined weight of 720kg worth a street duty value of over 96 Million Naira.
Rice Cannabis Sativa Seizure
While giving details of the seizure and narrating its method and manner, the CAC explained that at about 2300hrs on Wednesday 15 May 2024, a patrol team of Officers and Men of WMC at the Bar beach station of the Command received credible intelligence on movement of a boat on the high sea along the beach location carrying items suspected to be offending items. Upon receiving the information the team moved towards the described location and intercepted one fiber boat fitted with 200HP Yamaha Engine carrying sacks of the suspected items.
Similarly, the Comptroller in a related development also narrated another seizure scene which took place on Sunday 19 May 2024 when a joint team of Officers and Men of the Command while on routine patrol along Panko Creek, Badagry Waterways, intercepted one wooden boat fitted with a 25HP Yamaha engine carrying suspected contraband items and upon sighting our patrol Boats abandoned their Boat and dived into the water.
According to him, a careful examination of the items being conveyed revealed Five Hundred and Five (505) Bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice having a combined DPV of Fifty Nine Million, One Hundred and Eighty Five Thousand Naira (N59, 185,000.00) of both items and Means of Conveyance. The actions of these smugglers is a direct contravention of sections 245 and 254 of NCS Act 2023 which WMC is responsible for enforcing.
Rice Seizure
He said, in the spirit of interagency synergy and collaboration in line with the Comptroller General’s (CGC) policy thrust, the Western Marine Command (WMC) under my leadership has received approval to handover Seventeen (17) sacks containing One thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty Seven (1,257) loaves of Cannabis Sativa which includes Seventy Two (72) loaves that were previously seized by the Command with a combined weight of 720kg worth over 96 Million Naira to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
While appreciating the CGC and Management of NCS for the motivation they provide, the WMC under Compt. Paul Bamisaiye appeal to the general and trading public not to engage in illicit drugs. And to stop smuggling which lead to economic sabotage as drugs continue to be a menace to society and serves as the source of other criminal acts, like banditry, kidnapping and armed robbery.
Western Marine Command is poised more than ever to improve on this performance in the years ahead
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