{"id":69274,"date":"2024-03-05T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=69274"},"modified":"2024-03-05T18:43:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T18:43:41","slug":"efcc-arrests-21-food-loaded-trucks-heading-into-neighbouring-chad-cameroon-niger-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=69274","title":{"rendered":"EFCC arrests 21 food-loaded trucks heading into neighbouring Chad, Cameroon, CAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Operatives of the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday arrested 21 trucks loaded with food and non-food items heading towards N\u2019djamena, Chad Republic, Central African Republic and Cameroon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The trucks were intercepted in a sting operation at major exit routes along Kalabiri\/Gamboru Ngala and Bama roads, Borno State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Investigation showed food items cleverly concealed in the trucks that would have gone undetected, but for the eagle-eyed vigilance of operatives of the Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Further checks showed that the Waybills covering the goods carried by the trucks indicated their destinations as N&#8217;djamena, Chad Republic, \u00a0Central Africa Republic and Cameroon respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The arrest of the trucks is expected to stem the tide of food insecurity occasioned by unscrupulous antics of smugglers across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Suspects arrested with the trucks are being profiled and would be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u25cf By<b> Dele Oyewale, <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Head, Media &amp; Publicity, EFCC<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_240305_193406_357.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday arrested 21 trucks loaded with food and non-food items heading towards N\u2019djamena, Chad Republic, Central African Republic and Cameroon. The trucks were intercepted in a sting operation at major exit routes along Kalabiri\/Gamboru Ngala and Bama roads, Borno State. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":62638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5774,7],"tags":[2376,164,6556],"class_list":["post-69274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food","category-news","tag-chad","tag-efcc","tag-food-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}