Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) for housing stolen illegal items meant for export shut export warehouses of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) and the Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCOL).
The Federal Unit of Operations of the NSC on Monday shut Lagos export unit of both handling companies following a tip-off about some dubious Chinese on the verge of exporting stolen donkey skin through Emirates Airline.
This is happening barely three months after the NSC arrested two Chinese nationals attempting to smuggle 678 pieces of elephant tusks and other prohibited items out of Nigeria through SAHCOL.
The donkey skins, said to be stolen from Kenya, were warehoused with the two major ground-handling companies in Nigeria leading to their complicity and thus shutdown.
BusinessDay learned that the NCS discovered that the Chinese were using some Nigerian Customs agents to export the contraband to their home country using the seaports and the airports.
However, Bashir Gulma, head of corporate services, Nahco, told BusinessDay that the company was never shut at the time of filling in this report.
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