The Department of State Services (DSS) has revealed that two officers of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) conspired with four other persons to illegally import 661 pump-action rifles into the country in January 2017.

The Head of Investigation at the DSS, Mr. Wale Odu made the startling revelation on Monday while testifying before Justice Ayokunle Faji in the ongoing trial of the six accused persons over alleged conspiracy, importation of prohibited firearms, forgery and bribery.

The Federal Government had on November 16, 2017 re-arraigned the two Customs officers, Mahmud Hassan and Salisu Abdullahi alongside their co-accused persons on an amended eight-count charge.

The two officers were dismissed from the NCS alongside four others for allegedly conspiring to import the rifles into the country from Turkey through the Apapa Port in Lagos using a 40-feet container which they falsely claimed contained steel doors.