Nigerian Customs seize 3,000 cutlasses from Ghana
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Three thousand cutlasses suspected to have been smuggled into Nigeria from Ghana have been impounded by that country’s Customs Officers on Friday.
The Lagos Command of the Nigerian Customs found the cutlasses hidden under bags of rice being smuggled into the country.
Nigeria has banned the imports of rice into the country in a bid to encourage local production of the staple grain and to save foreign exchange.
News about the seizure of the Crocodile brand cutlasses was televised by the Nigerian Television Authority Network News evening segment on Friday.
With Africa’s most populous nation election due next year, security agencies have been charged to be on the lookout for anything that would compromise the peace of the nation.
The smuggled cutlasses, it is thought by some observers could be used for acts of lawlessness before, during and after the elections.
At a time when the country appears to have subdued militants and bandits who kidnap persons and demand ransoms, such smuggled offensive weapons are regarded with much suspicion.
By A.R. Gomda
ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson
[email protected] An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.
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