A large consignment of donkey hides and other contrabands worth N150.4m have been impounded by customs in the Kano-Jigawa Area Command.
It was gathered that the seizure was made along Babura and Daura routes leading to Kano through Katsina state in one month.
While addressing teeming journalists yesterday at the customs headquarters in Bompai, Kano, the Customs Area Comptroller of the command, Nasiru Ahmed disclosed that 678 packages of 25kg of unfinished leather of donkey skin with a duty paid value of N70.1million which was prepared and labelled for export to China were intercepted by his men and officers.
Also, over 4,114 Jerry cans of foreign vegetable oil valued at N56.5 million, and 490 bags of foreign rice valued at N11 million were seized.
Ahmed said his men impounded 19 units of assorted smuggled vehicles valued at N7.7 million, adding that 223 compressed blocks and a bag of Indian Hemp estimated at N3.3 million, concealed inside a black SUV heading to Kano were also intercepted.
He said, “This Cannabis Sativa which is called Indian Hemp is part of the hard drugs our children are taking and it will be easy for them to engage in kidnapping and banditry. It is valued at N3 million; and we have concluded arrangements to hand it over to NDLEA.”