Customs officials at Seme-Krake border in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have intercepted a Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, with a fake royal plate number.
The vehicle was impounded at the Seme-Krake border as one of the suspects was attempting to smuggle it into Nigeria from Benin Republic. In an attempt to evade customs charges and deceive customs officials that the vehicle belonged to a Nigerian royal father, the smuggler faked its plate number to read: Oba Ponbayi, Onisanlu of Isanlu Kingdom.
“Their fictitious kingdom doesn’t exist anywhere in Nigeria,” Mr. Sahabi Abubakar Sadiq, the Area Customs Controller at Seme-Krake border told journalists on Thursday.
“And Oba Ponbayi does not exist also. It’s just a combination of names from different parts of Nigeria,” Sadiq said.
The Customs boss said that the suspects fled into the bush as the officials closed in on them.
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