The Nigerian Navy’s Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Badagry, Lagos State, has intercepted seven fibre boats loaded with several bags of foreign parboiled rice on the Badagry Porto-Novo creek.
A reliable source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry on Sunday that the smugglers were intercepted by personnel of the FOB on Saturday.
The source said that on sighting the Navy, some occupants of the boats jumped into the water, while a few were arrested.
‘However, they were hungry boat boys used by smugglers engaged in their nefarious activities’, he said.
NAN reports that FOB Badagry has not issued any statement on the interception.
It reports that since the new Commanding Officer, Capt Leye Omotayo, assumed the command of FOB, Badagry, operations had been intensified on the waterways with a 24-hour patrol.
NAN also reports more synergy and collaboration between the Nigerian Navy and other law enforcement agencies, as well as with the host community in their collective efforts at tackling smuggling activities in the border area.
