Navy officials also seized 444 bags of smuggled rice in addition to a 52-foot canoe, two 40 BP Yamaha outboard engines, water pumping machine, fire extinguisher and 80 empty drums.
The Commanding Officer, Forward Operation, Ibaka Navy Captain Yusuf Idris gave the names of the suspects as Victor Esin, 30; Uchenna Lozoigbo, 34; Emmanuel Bassey, 25; Godwin Ating, 34, and Charles James.
Idris were said the suspects were arrested in their mid-journey into the Nigerian territorial water.
He the suspects and the seized items have been handed over to the Nigeria Customs Service for further investigation and prosecution on Tuesday.
Speaking, Idris warned perpetrators of smuggled items into the country to desist from the illicit affairs, adding that NN will not relent in apprehending and handling and such suspects to appropriate agency for prosecution.
He added that the command would do everything within its constitutional responsibility to frustrate the efforts of smugglers by seizing even the least number of any smuggled items into Nigeria.
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