The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base located at Ibaka, Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, says it arrested eleven suspects conveying 483 bags of smuggled rice in two wooden boats.
The Commanding Officer, Navy Cpt. Toritseju Vincent, said on Sunday while handling over the suspects and bags of rice to the Nigeria Customs Service in Ibaka that the arrest was made in two separate operations on July 10.
Vincent said the navy patrol team arrested five suspects with 319 bags of 50kg rice and six others with 164 bags of 50kg rice in wooden boats coming from neighbouring Cameroon.
According to him, the intense patrol of the waterways has drastically helped to reduce smuggling in that axis for some months now. Read more