Male donkey genitalia and dried shark fins worth N1.23 billion were en route to China and Hong Kong, respectively, when they were seized at the Lagos Airport by the Murtala Muhammed Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Continue Reading
Muhammed Yusuf, the Customs Area Controller in charge of the command, revealed this while displaying some of the illegal goods to reporters at the command on Thursday, August 17. According to Yusuf, a Chinese person harvested the male donkey genitalia at Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.
We start to question why it came from that side because donkeys are listed as an endangered species and they came from Abakaliki.In Abakaliki, there are a lot of donkeys, and since they are an endangered species, if these things continue You can picture the roles these things play in the ecology if they carry on in this manner. Currently, the Chinese man is in custody and an investigation is being conducted.
Yusuf stressed that there are not enough sharks in Nigerian waters when he indicated that investigations were ongoing to determine the source of the illicit shark fins.
"The offenders have been caught, and we're still looking into where these things originate from. I am aware that there are not enough sharks capable of doing this in the waters around Nigeria. This is meant to be taken at the point of documentation and exported outside of the nation. This is the first shipment of 1,700 endangered shark pieces to Hong Kong.we are seizing this in the command. He said.