Two bell helicopters worth $19million have been handed over to Nigerian Air Force by the Nigerian Customs Service in Lagos.
According
to a report by Channels TV, the two helicopters were recently seized by
the Nigerian Customs Service after the importers failed to comply with
importation requirements.
The Deputy Comptroller General of Customs, Dan Ugo, made this known while handing over the helicopters to the representative of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Hyacinth Eze.
Ugo said: “Due
to the vigilance of the officers and their controller here, it was
observed, when the requisite documents were requested for, that they
breached our laws.
“This kind of
equipment should come with end user certificate and some other things
and the law provides that if you import in breach of the law, we make a
seizure of the items.
“After seizing, it
is not enough. we must go the whole hog. The process is that we go and
appear before the court of law, file for condemnation and the court
actually condemned it and forfeited it to the Federal Government of
Nigeria,” he told reporters.
Receiving the
helicopters, Air Commodore Eze explained that the two helicopters will
assist the military in its battle against insurgency in the
north-eastern part of Nigeria.
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