In what appears as a chain work at one of the busiest border posts with Senegal ( Keur Ayib ), police investigators are currently probing into an alleged illegal activities of custom officers who are believed to be economically denying the Gambia government millions of dalasi by unscrupulously allowing hundreds of vehicles from the Dakar ports to enter the Gambia without paying the necessary duties, only for the importers of the said vehicles pay to a negotiated amount to the said custom officers in that particular border post, Freedom Newspaper can report.
A highly placed source, familiar to the affair has told the Freedom the ” back way business” is a lucrative one in Farafenni that made even custom volunteers very rich, talk less of the employed ones.
Meanwhile, hell broke loose for them last week, when five uncleared vehicles from Senegal were intercepted by police and it was found out later that one Pa Jagne, a custom officer at Farafenni was behind the entrance of these vehicles and sources further revealed that the said officer took an amount of D10,000 from each vehicle and even decided to use an escort for the said vehicles to police checks.
This story is developing and more coming and as we go to press, there’s an investigation panel instituted to look into the matter.
Meanwhile, hell broke loose for them last week, when five uncleared vehicles from Senegal were intercepted by police and it was found out later that one Pa Jagne, a custom officer at Farafenni was behind the entrance of these vehicles and sources further revealed that the said officer took an amount of D10,000 from each vehicle and even decided to use an escort for the said vehicles to police checks.
This story is developing and more coming and as we go to press, there’s an investigation panel instituted to look into the matter.
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