{"id":22004,"date":"2024-03-06T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=22004"},"modified":"2024-03-06T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:12:19","slug":"customs-impounds-n61m-worth-of-beans-at-seme-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/06\/customs-impounds-n61m-worth-of-beans-at-seme-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs Impounds N61m Worth of Beans At Seme Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement posted on the Service\u2019s official X handle, formerly Twitter, disclosed that the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Timi Bomodi made the announcement of the seizure during a press briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bomodi further said that revealed that the seized beans will be auctioned to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe seized beans, with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N61,450,000.00, have been deposited in the Government warehouse for safekeeping and are set to be auctioned to the public,\u201d Bomodi stated.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing also outlined the Seme Area Command\u2019s anti-smuggling activities from January to February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Area Controller also reported 168 interventions by the Command resulting in the seizure of various items including foreign parboiled rice, petroleum, vehicles, general merchandise, illicit drugs, and locally manufactured guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statement posted on the Service\u2019s official X handle, formerly Twitter, disclosed that the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Timi Bomodi made the announcement of the seizure during a press briefing on Tuesday. Bomodi further said that revealed that the seized beans will be auctioned to the public. \u201cThe seized beans, with a Duty Paid Value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22021,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions\/22021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}