Nigeria-Customs-Service
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja –
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has strongly denied media reports claiming it issued a Memo alerting security agencies and the public to a plan by Boko Haram to carry out terrorists’ attack in Abuja, and neighbouring states.
According to an internal memo purported to have been issued by the NCS, was was released late last week, claiming that the terrorists were re-grouping around Abuja, Kogi and Nasarawa States, all in North-central Nigeria.
The controversial memo, purportedly signed by the Comptroller, Enforcement of NCS headquarters, H.A Sabo, disclosed that the terrorist group had camped in five prominent locations in Abuja, with plans to unleash terror on residents of the city.
The said Memo was widely carried by a number of online and traditional media organisation in the country.
But in a telephone chat with PRNigeria, the Service’s spokesperson, Mr. Joseph Atta, denied issuing any statement on the alleged terrorists’ onslaught.
“I don’t even know anything about it. The Nigerian Customs Service also knows nothing about the letter,” he said point-blank.
According to Atta, it is not the first-time messages or statements about ‘phantom’ recruitment exercises and goods’ auctioning are issued bearing fake letterheads of NCS.
(With a report by PRNigeria)