The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has completed the coupling and detailed examination of a major arms shipment seized at the Tin Can Island Port Command, uncovering 399 fully assembled Jojef firearms along with a large assortment of supplementary rifle parts.
The development follows the earlier disclosure by Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, on 6 August 2026, that Customs had intercepted a container containing concealed crates of knocked-down components initially identified as Jojef pump-action rifles.
Additional parts recovered from the shipment include 89 frames, 16 heat shields, 10 trigger pins, three pistons, 25 locking lugs, 80 charging handles, 39 pistol-grip screws, 34 springs, 57 trigger groups, 66 foregrip latches, 45 foregrips/handguards, four pistol grips and five barrels.
Adeniyi had warned that criminal networks could attempt to exploit Nigeria’s borders, ports and airports ahead of the next general elections to move prohibited items into the country. He assured the public that the Service would intensify surveillance and enforcement operations to prevent such activities.
“We are about entering a major election cycle and we know that by this period, men of the underworld will want to use our borders, our ports, our airports to bring in items like this. We are going to redouble our efforts to ensure that we do not allow them to do so,” the CGC stated.
He reaffirmed the Service’s commitment to intelligence-led enforcement, stronger border surveillance and collaboration with sister security agencies, including the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) under the Office of the National Security Adviser.
Following the complete inventory of the illicit shipment, Adeniyi said the NCS is preparing to hand over the seized armaments to the NCCSALW, underscoring a unified inter-agency effort to remove dangerous weapons from circulation and ensure that those behind the trafficking network are tracked down and brought to justice.
