Three individuals with residences in Abuja and Lagos own
the company that has been fingered for the illegal importation of arms
into the country earlier in the week, Daily Trust Reports.
The Nigeria Customs Service, on Thursday, named Great James Oil and
Gas Ltd as the importer of the haul of 470 guns that was impounded at
the Tin Can Island port last week, a week after a consignment of 1,100
weapons belonging to the same firm was seized at the same port.
The Comptroller-General, Col Hameed Ali (rtd), said Great James Oil
and Gas Ltd used a vessel, AVS Arkas Africa, to ferry the weapons into
Nigeria. The Customs boss did not name the owners of the company.
Investigations revealed that Ayogu Cyril, Ayogu Kelvin and Ayogu
Great James registered the oil firm as its directors on July 20, 2011.
The company was registered with RC 968675.
The
three directors used residential addresses in Kaura District of the
Federal Capital Territory and Bariga area in Lagos, respectively, to
register the business.
Cyril and Great James gave the address of a residential apartment,
Suite 4, 4th Avenue, Prince and Princess Estate in Kaura District, Abuja
while Kelvin gave the address of a residential apartment at No. 25
Bariga Road.
When our reporters visited the address in Abuja yesterday, a guard
informed them that the male occupant was at home with his wife. But he
declined their request to speak with his employer, holding that his boss
was not expecting any visitor.
A vehicle was seen parked in front of the building.
The guard, and another adult male, denied knowledge of the said oil
and gas firm or the occupant’s link to it. He later went in and returned
with a response, saying his boss was equally unaware of the said firm.
Other
people spoken to in the area said they had no knowledge OF what the
occupant was doing for a living, and others doubted if he had a firm
named Great James Oil and Gas Ltd. “The owner is from the South-East,
but his name is not James Ayogu or Cyril Ayogu and it is strange the
company you associate with him,” a resident of the area said.
At No 25, Bariga Road, in the Bariga Local Development Area of Lagos
State, given as the residence of Kelvin is a brown one-storey affair of
six three bedroom apartments.
All but one of the tenants were out when our correspondent visited
there yesterday. A chat with the only person, who wouldn’t give his
name, said Kelvin actually lived there but had packed out to his own
house about two years ago. He said he didn’t know the address of
Kelvin’s present residence.
On
Thursday, the Customs CG said the firm used the elbow plumbing plastic
that it declared in the bill of lading to deceive officials about the
concealed weapons.
He said the 470 weapons were found after officers had subjected the
20-foot container No. CMAU189817/8 to 100 per cent examination.
A meeting was scheduled Friday between Nigerian officials and their
Turkish counterparts to discuss the rise in arms shipment to Nigeria
from Turkey.
A total of 2,671 rifles, in four batches, were seized within the last
eight months, all coming from Turkey, according to the Nigeria Customs
Service.
Hameed Ali said his agency and other security outfits were
investigating the reasons for the massive importation of arms into the
country.
“We are yet to get to the bottom of the whole thing. Are these arms
meant for commercial purposes, or meant to be given to a group of
insurgents or agitators and kidnappers?” he said.
Monday, 25 September 2017
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