smuggling

Goods Smuggling: Kenya Moves To Enhance Border Security

June 15, 2022 4:56 am

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has announced that it has increased border surveillance in order to stem the high amount of smugglers bringing goods in from neighbouring countries such as Tanzania and Uganda.

The general belief is that the move will help to reduce the potentially large revenue lost to local manufacturers and traders to illicit trade, which the Anti-Counterfeits Authority (ACA) estimates to be more than Sh153 annually.

The measures follow other recent steps to improve the strength of the Kenyan border, such as the discontinuation of the Kenya visa on arrival. It is now obligatory for all non-visa-waiver …

How To Stop Fuel Smuggling, By Customs CG Ali

November 29, 2019 2:57 pm

Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), yesterday offered path to smuggling of fuel to Nigeria’s neighboring countries.

Ali, who appeared before the Mahmoud Gaya-led House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), said the problem would be contained if the product sells at a uniform price in the West African nations.

The Customs chief faulted the criticisms about the stoppage of fuel supplies to those settlements bordering Nigeria 20 kilometers, saying the decision was in the interest of the country.

Ali said he had put in place measures to cushion the effects of …

Despite Border Closure, Smuggling Booms At Niger Border

October 22, 2019 2:00 am

•Customs arrest 50 suspects, seize 14 trucks Accuse residents of border towns of complicity

Despite the closure of Nigerian land borders by the federal government in the last three months, smuggling still persists at the border between Nigeria and Niger Republic, our investigation has revealed.

Newsmen gathered that at the border between Jibia in Katsina State and Niger Republic, smugglers have resorted to the use of illegal routes to ferry in bags of foreign rice, bales of second-hand clothing and other contrabands.

However, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has dismissed the observation, calling for either a photograph or video evidence …

Nigeria loses ₦1,085 trillion daily to fuel smuggling

August 18, 2019 3:08 am

Daily, an estimated seven million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), better known as petrol, valued at N1, 085t is smuggled from Nigeria to neighbouring West African countries.

With daily consumption of about 52 million litres of petrol per day according to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), The Guardian understands that only about 45 million litres are eventually circulated within the country while approximately seven million litres are smuggled to countries where the product is sold for higher turnover.

Neighbouring Chad sells the cheapest petrol at the equivalent of N322, and industry sources told The Guardian that using N300 …