The Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Federal Operations Unit Zone A, Hussein Ejibunu, has directed investigations into the murder of one of its operatives, a Customs Assistant 1, on Saturday night in Ogun.
Mr Ejibunu, currently the Acting Controller FOU of the zone, gave the directive in a statement by Theophilus Duniya, the zone’s public relations officer.While condemning the killing, the acting controller reiterated his resolve to keep suppressing the activities of smugglers and arresting perpetrators of the criminal act.
”The driver was killed during an operation, after two vehicles laden with smuggled foreign parboiled rice, were seized and were being taken to Lagos. ”In the course of the movement, one of the vehicles developed a mechanical problem and as it was being fixed, the suspected smugglers mobilised themselves in large number with arms, charms, stones and other dangerous objects, to murder the deceased officer.
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