We donate seized smuggled items to IDPs – Katsina customs boss
All goods seized from smugglers are sent to internally displaced person camps across the country, Katsina State Comptroller of the Nigerian Customs Services has said.
Dalha Wada said this in a brief interview at the sideline of a security meeting in Katsina on Tuesday.
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“Even today (Tuesday), the Humanitarian Affairs Ministry is coming to take delivery of some of these seized goods on humanitarian grounds. All textile materials and food items now go straight to IDP camps. We don’t benefit from such goods. And I will personally invite you to see them (goods) being taken today,” Mr Wada said.
He said more than four states, including Borno and Yobe, have received contraband impounded in Katsina.
Mr Wada said the goods, when taken to such states, were taken directly to IDP camps.
He said from March this year when he assumed control of the command, goods worth N454, 990, 129 had been impounded.
