Written by Bolaji Ogundele, Port Harcourt Sunday, 02 October 2011
A British national, who is said to be in the employ of Shell Petroleum Development Company, is now on the watch list of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) at Onne Port for allegedly importing illegal arm and ammunition into Nigeria.
Comptroller of the NCS at Onne Port, Dan Ugo, who disclosed this during a briefing at Onne said his unit, during the inspection of the 1 by 20 feet container NO. SBLU 228146/9, containing the expatriate’s personal effects, discovered a well-concealed revolver (Python 357) with life ammunition on Wednesday.
According to him, investigations started immediately and the initial part of it had yielded the arrest of one Sebastian Okom, the clearing agent of the British national, whose identities are still undisclosed for investigations purposes.
Ugo said further that the importer of the container would have to come around to answer questions about his reasons for bringing firearms and ammunition that are prohibited for private individuals’ possession into the country.
“We want to ensure that these things don’t come into the country. The intention is for criminal purpose since this is not allowed, there is tendency that its use will not be in line with the provisions of the law,” he said.
Meanwhile, the arrested suspect, Okom, said he knew nothing about the concealed illegal arm and ammunition, revealing further that the importer of the container, a British national, is on cross posting from London to Nigeria and that the SPDC being the employer of the importer, had employed the services of his own company for the shipment of the importer’s effect.
Okom, who is a Field Officer in the Shipping company, however said that his company would be cooperating with the Customs to locate the owner of the property and the gun.
When contacted, Shell’s spokesperson, Tony Okonedo, described as absurd a situation whereby a British national working for his company would have to ship in his personnel effect.
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