The Commanding Officer, FOB, PETER YILME, said this in Ibaka during the hand-over of the suspects and items to the Nigeria Customs Service.
He said the Navy was committed to making sure that perpetrators of the illegal trade were made to face the full wrath of the law.
Captain YILME said the suspects were caught with wooden boat carrying the smuggled rice, adding that Navy seized the items during a routine patrol around the Effiat waterways.
