{"id":691745,"date":"2019-08-26T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Sunday said the military equipment that were recently intercepted by Nigerian authorities were bound for Niger Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" da"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:47:33","slug":"nigeria-customs-gives-updates-on-seized-military-equipment-in-adamawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/26\/nigeria-customs-gives-updates-on-seized-military-equipment-in-adamawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Customs Gives Updates On Seized Military Equipment in Adamawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Sunday said the military equipment that were recently intercepted by Nigerian authorities were bound for Niger Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Joseph Attah, a spokesperson for the Customs, told PREMIUM TIMES six drivers attached to the vehicles were also held by Nigerian authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Six mine-resistance all-terrain vehicles were seized by Nigerian soldiers in Adamawa State earlier this week and handed over to the Customs on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The heavily fortified equipment were being conveyed without appropriate documentation, including their ownership, source and destination, when they were seized by Nigerian soldiers in Fufore Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The equipment were later handed over to the Customs by the Nigerian Army 23 Armoured Brigade at a low-key ceremony in Konkol, Adamawa State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">PREMIUM TIMES broke the news of the seizure shortly after the equipment were handed over to the Customs on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Military sources said the conditions under which the equipment were being transported were suspicious, especially in a region that has been racked by a 10-year-long insurgency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Adamawa, alongside Borno and Yobe, have been the three most affected states by the devastating toll of Boko Haram menace.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-b-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Nigerians expressed deep concerns over how the equipment could be moved within Nigeria&#8217;s borders without being detected for a while, especially coming months after Ibikunle Amosun, a senator and ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, turned over his large cache of illegally-stockpiled ammunition to the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">It also threw up suspicion that the country&#8217;s porous security architecture might have enabled movements of similar controlled-equipment across the country in larger country under the radar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">But on Sunday, the Customs said Nigerians should see the seizure as a manifestation of pragmatic measures of security and law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;There was no evidence that proper transit procedure had been followed by those moving the equipment,&#8221; Mr Attah said. &#8220;This was quickly detected by a combined team of Customs, military and the State Security Service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Mr Attah said the drivers conveying the military hardware said they left Cameroon and on their way to Niger Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;Nigeria appears to be a transit route for the equipment,&#8221; Mr Attah said. &#8220;But even then, moving them would require clearance from the Office of the National Security Adviser, in addition to several other procedures that must be followed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Mr Attah said Customs was asked to take charge of the equipment because it has statutory responsibility &#8220;over anything that is crossing through Nigerian borders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The Nigerian Army and the SSS have not issued public statements about the seized equipment.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Sunday said the military equipment that were recently intercepted by Nigerian authorities were bound for Niger Republic. 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