The Kano/Jigawa Customs Area Command has intercepted no fewer than 339 pieces of donkey skin while being smuggled out of the country to China.
The Command’s Comptroller, Sulaiman Umar, who made the disclosure while addressing newsmen in Kano on Thursday, said the intercepted donkey skin had a duty paid value of over N31.56 million.
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He said the illegal killing of donkeys was the main reason why the animal is going into extinction in the country.
According to him, the donkey skin is being exported to China and other countries of the world because of the high cost of the commodity in such countries.
“Since the killing of donkey has been banned in the country because every animal has the right to exist,” he said.
The Command he said, had been able to generated over N25.3 billion as revenue from January 2021 to date.
Umar said the amount generated this year (2021) is higher than that of last year (2020) which stood at N24.4 billion.
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“The Command has continuously engage in sensitising the public on the need to clear their goods through the inland terminals.
“This effort led to the increased patronage and has reflected positively in the revenue collection of theCommand,” the Comptroller said.
He explained that the command had within the period under review made a total of 398 seizures with a duty paid value of N1.021,556,789.90 billion.
Umar said no fewer than 10 suspects were arrested bin connection with the seizures adding that some of the suspects were handed over to relevant agencies for further investigation and prosecution, others were granted administrative bail while other cases are still pending in Court.
He commended the officers and men of the Area Command for their effort in actualisation of the the successes recorded in the period under review.
“We will continue to utilise our intelligence gathering techniques and deploy our strength and available logistics to ensure success in the battle against smugglers and economic saboteurs.
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He used the occasion to warn reculctrant smugglers who feel they could always have their ways against our officers that the Command would definitely uncover their illegal acts, make arrest and inflict financial loss on such ventures.
He said the Command would continue to work tiressly to ensure the officers carry out their anti-smugglig and revenue collection activities with utmost professionalism.
