THE  Ogun State Area  Comptroller of   Nigeria Customs Service, Haruna Mamudu  has raised the alarm that smugglers have devised another means of  hiding  arms and ammunition in bags of rice and in sacks of cassava flour.

Mamudu  stated this while displaying 1,480 cartridges of live ammunition concealed in 15 bags of rice  intercepted from suspected smugglers along Abeokuta-Igboora bush path.

The Customs boss said using food stuff to smuggle arms and ammunition into the country was adopted  because food stuffs are hardly checked especially cassava  that is locally produced.

He also disclosed that the  command  made a seizure of nine sacks of Indian hemp at Imeko axis.

“Of recent, the Oyo state command made a seizure of arms and ammunition in sacks of cassava flour. Now,  nobody is comfortable with it because it is another form and tactics of importing ammunition into the country and you know the current situation in the country… They were inside the bush off-loading rice and putting ammunition in the bags. And immediately they got information  that we were closing in they fled. We are making serious efforts to get the people involved arrested. We are going  to keep our eyes on them and very soon, we will apprehend them”, he said .