The goods said to have been intercepted between April and June 2017 , include loads of fairly used clothes, shoes, bags, bed sheets, breakable plates; 7 , 163 bags of foreign parboiled rice, and 147 jerry cans of vegetable oil.
Apart from these, the customs service also seeks a forfeiture order on seven vehicles, also intercepted between April and June, which values were, however , not stated .
The Assistant Legal Adviser of the Nigeria Customs Service Board , Federal Operations Unit , Zone A , Ikeja , Mr . Shehu Bodinga, appeared before Justice Abdulaziz Anka on Monday with an ex parte application seeking a forfeiture order on the goods and the vehicles.
Bodinga told the judge that since the goods were intercepted and seized , their owners had absconded and refused to show up to claim them, having realised the severity of the punishment for their offence .
He said the Customs had received a directive from the presidency that part of the seized items should be distributed to victims of Boko Haram insurgency living in the Internally Displaced Persons camp in the North-East .
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