The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Ikeja, in collaboration with the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency and the Wildlife Justice Commission, has intercepted 22 pieces of elephant tusks weighing 130.84 kilograms with a street value of N126.3m.
Announcing this in a statement on Monday obtained by PUNCH Online, the Public Relations Officer of the FOU Zone A, Hussaini Abdullahi, a Chief Superintendent of Customs, added that four suspects were arrested in connection with the seizure.
He stressed that the items were seized over the weekend at “Ofada, Mowe, Ogun State, and other areas within Lagos, simultaneously.”
Abdullahi explained that the interception was made possible through well-coordinated intelligence gathering, surveillance, and investigation into an organised wildlife trafficking syndicate operating within and beyond “our borders, led by the FOU Zone A and the SIS A team of our Customs Intelligence Unit, with the support of the aforementioned
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