240 Trucks Of Textile Materials Arrive Nigeria Through Jibiya Border By Muazu Elazeh Katsina

240 Trucks Of Textile

Materials Arrive Nigeria

Through Jibiya Border

By Muazu Elazeh Katsina

— Jun 27, 2015 1:12 pm | 1 Comment

About two hundred and forty trucks

loaded with textile materials and other

general goods are billed to arrive Nigeria

through the Magama/Jibiya border of

Katsina state, customs area comptroller

for Kaduna/Katsina command, Maitama

Kura has said.

Kura disclosed this at the Magama/Jibiya

post when he led other officials of the

service and relevant stakeholders on

examination of the goods.

He added that about 30 smaller trucks

carrying tiles and kitchen utensil were

also scheduled to arrive through the

Magama/Jibiya border.

He said that the 240 trucks carrying

textiles materials and general goods had

been cleared to pass through the border

after payment of import duty of N273

million, assuring that each of the trucks

would be examined so as to avoid

importation of illicit goods.

“We are here to examine these trucks to

ensure that no illicit materials or arms

and ammunition are imported. The

examination is also to ensure that the

goods in the vehicles conform with the

particulars signed by the importers,” he

enthused.

Kura, however, dispelled rumours that

goods coming into the country through

the Jibiya border were not being

examined, insisting that the command

carried out thorough examination of all

goods to ensure relevant levies and fines

were paid.

He noted that due to diligent inspection

by officers and man of the Customs

service manning the border, there had

never been any case of the importation of

arms and ammunition through the border.

Fielding questions from newsmen, the

Customs Controller disclosed that the

multi million naira goods inspection bay

at border has stopped working since the

last one year stressing that the Service

had written several correspondence to the

operator to affect repair but got no

response.