EXCLUSIVE: Seme Border Stakeholders Accuse Ex-Customs Border Boss Adenuga Of Ordering N4m Per Truck Into Private Accounts, Allege N37.2bn Diversion | Sahara Reporters

Multiple sources familiar with the operation told SaharaReporters that Adenuga informed customs brokers and stakeholders at the border that he had secured approval from the National Security Adviser (NSA) and the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, authorising the Seme Border Command to independently generate operational funds for anti-smuggling activities, customs intelligence gathering, trans-border crime enforcement and infrastructural upgrades.

Former Seme Border Area Comptroller of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adenuga, has been accused of massive corruption and diversion of customs revenue over an alleged multi-billion-naira scheme involving the collection of N4 million per truck from stakeholders at the Seme Border Command in Badagry, Lagos State.

Multiple sources familiar with the operation told SaharaReporters that Adenuga informed customs brokers and stakeholders at the border that he had secured approval from the National Security Adviser (NSA) and the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, authorising the Seme Border Command to independently generate operational funds for anti-smuggling activities, customs intelligence gathering, trans-border crime enforcement and infrastructural upgrades.