A Nigerian man was captured in Niger Republic bearing woosome amount 4.6m Euros (N1.05bn) in real cash. He was captured at the Diori Hamani Airport in Niamey, the capital of Niger, on the way Dubai in the United Arab Emirate.
Punch reports that, the Nigerien police said they suspected that the man was escaping with the cash keeping in mind the end goal to abstain from being gotten by the organization of President Muhammadu Buhari, who has been indicting an against defilement crusade since suspicion of office on May 29.
They likewise communicated stress that there had been an upsurge in the quantity of Nigerians trafficking colossal wholes of cash in real money through the neighboring nation.
The police in Niger are as of now taking a shot at the suspicion that the cash traffickers have assistants in the country.The capture of the Nigerian has been a major news thing in the Nigerien daily papers and TV slots.
Inquisitively the powers here on Wednesday guaranteed obliviousness of the cash seizure in the neighboring nation however the Customs officers in Niger were at that point kicking against repatriating the money to Nigeria.
A media report in Niger on Saturday said the National Union of Customs Officers at a press instructions "impugned the solicitation of the Nigerian powers" to give back the seized cash.
The Customs authority said there had been a few comparable seizures in Niamey from individuals trafficking cash from Nigeria, putting the sum that had been so seized in a few billions of naira.
They said the seized cash had been for the most part in dollars, euros and pounds sterling, requesting that the Niger powers permit the Customs authorities to carry out their employment without impedance.
At the point when reached, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said he couldn't talk on the advancement in light of the fact that his brief was to represent the President.
He in this manner alluded one of our reporters to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"I represent the President. On this sort of issues, I will exhortation that you talk with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," he said.
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the authorities prevented information from claiming the seizure in Niger Republic. The service's representative, Ogbole Ahmedu-Ode, said the service had not got official correspondence on the capture of any Nigerian.
"I am finding out about this episode surprisingly from you, we have not got any correspondence on the matter from any quarters," he said via phone..
The Nigerien international safe haven in Abuja couldn't be gone after remark on Wednesday as calls to the mission's telephone lines neglected to associate.
The representative for the Nigerian Customs Service, Mr Wale Adeniyi couldn't be gone after remarks as instant message and rehashed calls made to his versatile line were not answered as of the time (8.30pm) of filling this report.art exploring in light of the fact that the Customs in Niger don't report specifically to us in Nigeria."
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