Operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) stationed in Lagos has on Monday seized a cache of arms made up of 661 automatic guns.
The Comptroller-General, NCS, said that a trailer was intercepted by his men around the Mile 2/Apapa axis of Lagos, and upon routine check was discovered to be carrying 49 boxes of pump-action rifles.
He said some arrests had been made, and that among those being detained were the Customs operatives who cleared the container.
The agency, he said, was still in search of the importers of the items who had allegedly declared the import as steel doors.
Only recently, the NCS handed over two helicopters to the Nigerian Airforce after the Rivers State government failed to meet the financial obligations required for clearing the items.
