Illegals arms importation Nigeria Customs chief meets turkish ambassador

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hameed Ali has expressed concern over the 671 pump action rifles imported from Turkey which appeared to suggest complicity of both Nigerian and Turkish officials. He expressed his worry at a meeting with the Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Hakan Cakil, who paid him a courtesy call at the Customs Headquarters in Abuja. In a statement by the customs spokesman, Joseph Attah, said he was concerned that four recent major seizures of illegal arms came from Turkey. However, the Turkish Ambassador defended his country saying that all the four shipments intercepted had ”false declarations on the bills of lading”. Mr. Cakil restated his country’s support for Nigeria’s security and wellbeing adding that the Turkish government will cooperate with Nigeria in every step to deal decisively with those found involved. Security operatives recently nabbed five suspects who reportedly brought 661 pump-action rifles into the country from Turkey through the Apapa Port in Lagos, using a 40-feet container, which they falsely claimed contained steel doors.