Niger Police Arrests Nigerian Man With N1Billion Cash (See)

It's a job well done for the Nigeria police. The police in neighboring Niger/Republic have arrested a Nigerian carrying 4.6m Euros (N1.05bn) in/cash.% The man was arrested at the Diori Hamani Airport in Niamey, the capital of Niger, while on his way to Dubai in the United Arab Emirate.

The Nigerian police said they suspected that the man was fleeing with the money in order to avoid being caught by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, who has been prosecuting an anti/corruption campaign since assumption of office on May 29.

They also expressed worry that there had been an upsurge in the number of Nigerians trafficking huge sums of money in cash through their country...

The police in Niger are already working on the suspicion that the money traffickers have accomplices. The arrest of the Nigerian has been a big news item in Nigerian newspapers and television stations... The Customs officers in Niger were already kicking against repatriating the cash to Nigeria.

A report in Niger on Saturday said the National Union of Customs Officers at a press briefing denounced the request of the Nigerian authorities to return the seized money.

The Customs official said there had been several similar seizures in Niamey from people trafficking money from Nigeria, putting the amount that had been so seized in several billions of naira.

They said the seized money had been mainly in dollars, euros and pounds sterling, asking Niger authorities to allow the Customs officials to do their job without interference.