{"id":21810,"date":"2024-03-13T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/customs-intercepts-36-african-grey-parrots-being-smuggled-to-ghana\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:02:39","slug":"customs-intercepts-36-african-grey-parrots-being-smuggled-to-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/customs-intercepts-36-african-grey-parrots-being-smuggled-to-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs intercepts 36 African Grey Parrots being smuggled to Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Western Marine Command of the Nigeria Customs Service says its officers have intercepted 36 live African Grey Parrots that are being smuggled to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Odaudu Salefu, who disclosed this while addressing the press, noted that the seizure resulted from the Command\u2019s vast intelligence network.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the trading of the birds was driving the the animal into extinction.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cMy officers, while on patrol on the waterway between Abombo and T junction, intercepted a boat. They became so curious about this boat. Why should this boat be here at this time of the day, around 12 to 1 midnight? On getting closer, they heard the sound of birds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA minute search was conducted from the boat, and they discovered it contained live parrots, an African Grey Parrot, and you are aware that Nigeria is a signatory society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot watch some illegal traders knowing fully well that any attack on this animal, you are endangering their species, which is going into extinction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Customs intercepts 36 African Grey Parrots being smuggled to Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Marine Command of the Nigeria Customs Service says its officers have intercepted 36 live African Grey Parrots that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642,5077,384,15],"tags":[644,478,387,180],"class_list":["post-21810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customs","category-ghana","category-metro","category-news","tag-customs","tag-ghana","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}