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Car dealers set Customs’ vehicle ablaze in Kaduna over import duty
Car dealers set Customs’ vehicle ablaze
Angry car dealers in Kaduna set ablaze Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, patrol vehicle, following a clash with customs’ officials over import duty.
The officials reportedly went to a car mart on Rabah Road, Kaduna North Local Government Area, at about 3p.m., to impound vehicles without import duties from car dealers, when the clash occurred.
However, timely intervention of the Kaduna State security outfit, code-named ‘Operation Yaki’, saved the situation from degenerating further.
An eyewitness explained that the officials had gone to a car dealer’s showroom, identified six luxury cars that they said have no valid papers and towed four of them away.
However, before they came back for the other two, the dealers had whisked them out of the mart and mobilised their members to confront the officers.
According to the witness, “the Custom officials had gone to Issa Kaita Road, to impound vehicles that have no import duties from a showroom. They succeeded in impounding six and took two away.
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