Nigeria Customs Clarifies Seme Border Properties Misleading Video

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Nigeria Customs Service has offered clarifications on Seme Border properties<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that going by the growing concern over a misleading social media video&comma; the Nigeria Customs Service has offered clinical details on issues involving Clearing Agents and the Service&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a statement signed by  Deputy Comptroller Joseph Attah&comma; Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service&comma; the Nigeria Customs advised the general public to disregard the misleading video saying&comma; it is meant to portray the Service in bad light<br &sol;>&NewLine;The statement reads in full&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The attention of Nigeria Customs Service has been drawn to a video circulating on social media with misleading commentary capable of inciting members of the public against Customs&period; The false narrative is that the service is destroying the properties of Clearing Agents at Seme Border&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>For the avoidance of doubt&comma; the land in question belongs to Nigeria Customs Service and was allocated temporarily to the Clearing Agents with the agreement that anytime the service has need for it&comma; they will leave&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Fortunately for the Clearing Agents&comma; they had the opportunity of using the land for over a decade till now that the Service is expanding its barracks to accommodate more Officers and Men of the Command&period; <&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>This is in line with the effort of Nigeria Customs Management to provide adequate accommodation for its Officers so as to ensure effective delivery of their statutory functions&period; <&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>NCS Management wants to avoid a situation where inadequacy of barracks accommodation forces Officers to live in houses that may belong to smugglers&period; <&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Consequently&comma; they were given quit notice that lasted about a year&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>In line with our cordial relationship&comma; the Agents are complying with the notice and removing all their valuables including doors&comma; windows e&period;t&period;c&period; It is therefore&comma; unfortunate for this unknown person to film people who are removing their own properties without coercion or hindrance to give it a narrative that can cause breach of peace&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>The Nigeria Customs therefore&comma; calls on all those who may come across this video to disregard its content as effort are on to track the fabricator&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;