 Nigeria customs service in Kaduna state has made seizure of unregistered vehicles and medicine to the tune of about 236 billion naira, ranging from April to June 2022. The revenue generating body says the fate was achieved through information gathering and cooperation among relevant government agencies. Plus TV correspondent Habila Daofari files this report. Over the years, illegal importations and smuggling of substandard products into the country has been a major challenge facing the federal government. This economic setback has discouraged local producers from producing products leading to losses in millions of naira. The comptroller of the customs service in Kaduna says these items include rice, maize, petrol, textile, unregistered vehicles, used tires and medicine. The idea of seizing these products is to give way to the production of same items locally here in Nigeria. The federal government has decided to give 30 incentives to Nigerians who wish to produce these items here in Nigeria and I don't think we should allow foreign items, similar items to compete with the ones that are produced here locally so we don't allow it to come and wherever we see it we stop it from circulating. He complains that continuous smuggling of contraband into country by concealment was an economic realm and puts in the lives of Nigerians at risk. He appealed to importers to use their proper channels that the customs service will always make offenders face the wrath of the law. The federal government is on wisdom and for control purpose decided to restrict importation of motor vehicles through the port and airport. This is for control and statistical reason. What we have here is, I can say it's a western investment. If the owner feel though he can ask questions from customs, he can easily get the correct information that will not allow him to waste his investment like this. Motor vehicles are not allowed to come through border stations. They are allowed to come only through ports and airports. When we get them, some of them will claim as if they have documents. But for us to be fair to them, we keep it for them to bring the documents for us to verify. He also asked patriotic Nigerians to support the fight against illegal importations and smuggling. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.