The Nigeria Customs Service says smugglers have been using fake presidential number plates to deliver vehicles across the country.
Comptroller, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone “B”, Kaduna, Chedi Wada, said when he received Bashir Rabe-Mani, NAN Zonal Manager (ZM) in Kaduna Zonal Office, who paid him a courtesy call on Wednesday.
Wada said that the smugglers have also been using fake number plates purportedly belonging to various states and local governments, MDAs, Emirate Councils and other governmental institutions.
”Customs will not relent and will continue to do its best by not allowing smugglers to use the old tactics of using the presidential number plates and other governmental institutions to smuggle luxurious vehicles into the country.
”This is one of the menaces we are having. It is saddening how vehicle smugglers are ridiculing the apex seat in the country by using presidential fake plate numbers using them on newly smuggled cars to deceive customs,” Wada said.
He warned that anyone caught in the act would be made to face the wrath of the law.
“We are not happy with them, it is too bad for them to be playing with the presidency, that’s why we always put a heavy hammer on those using the presidency on false instances on smuggled vehicles.
“Let them respect the presidency, we must respect the presidency,” Wada said.