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Customs arrest 15 for rebagging foreign rice to beat anti-smuggling fight [PHOTO]

The Adamawa/Taraba Zonal Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has arrested 15 members of a syndicate that specialize in importing foreign rice and rebagging it as local rice.

The Zonal Comptroller of the Command, Karmadeen Olumoh, who addressed newsmen on Tuesday, said the rice rebagging syndicate routinely empties bags of foreign rice into Nigeria-branded bags and passes them off as local…