The Ogun State Area Comptroller of Customs, Sani Madugu, who made this known, while briefing newsmen at the state command headquarters in Abeokuta, said the truck marked, KMC-252-XC and with serial number ICT-7A-001 was intercepted along Sagamu Interchange.
Madugu said there is a good synergy between the Customs Service and the Dangote Group, while the synergy is yielding positive results, such as seizure of any of the Group's truck involved in smuggling activities.
He added that the Group usually inform his command, whenever any of its trucks fail to return on time, so that his officers and men can be on the look out, to intercept any of such trucks that is involved in smuggling activities.
The Customs boss said the Group, sometimes make seizure of their trucks involved in such act and hand it over to Customs.
He said: " The owner of the truck are synergizing with us and this is giving results. The company make seizures and them over to us.
They monitor as we monitor, they inform us when a truck has not returned, so that we can act"
He added that the total duty paid value of the seized truck and other seized items in the last one week is N26,940,000.
He listed other seized items within the week as, a blue Mazda 626 car carrying 30 bags of rice, a white Mazda 626 car carrying 40 bags of rice, a silver colour Mazda car carrying 29 bags of rice, a dark blue Mazda car carrying 48 bags of rice, Lexus RX Jeep, Hyundai Veracruz Jeep, Hiace bus carrying 800 pairs of foreign foot wear and 100 pieces of foreign school bags, a Ford bus carrying 100 packages of mosquito repellant and 50 kegs of foreign vegetable oil, as well as a Sharon bus carrying 19 bundles of used tyres 1 by 4.
The Comptroller said a total of 277 vehicles have been released to the highest bidders through the e-auction programme of his command, with 233 of the vehicles auctioned from the Idiroko axis and 44 from Abeokuta axis.
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