The Murtala Muhammad Airport
(MMA) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) which generated N90.43
billion last year from customs duty and other charges, has been given N144
billion revenue target this year.
Its Area Controller, Comptroller
Muhammad Yusuf, added that in comparison
to the revenue collected same period in 2022, the N90.43billion was an improvement
of N69.77 billion.
He said: “This clearly shows a
progressive difference of N20.66 billion, depicting 29.61 per cent increase of
collection.
“The difference recorded was made
possible as a result of resilience of officers in ensuring that agents were
made to do proper declarations and made to adhere strictly to import/export
guidelines in tandem with extant laws.''
He said to achieve this year’s
target, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi had encouraged
their officers and urged them to sit up and block all leakages and this could
be done with technology.
He added that during the period
under review, January 2023 to December 2023, for anti-smuggling, officers and men
of the command had not rested on their oars in enforcing government fiscal
policies and other trade guidelines.
The customs boss said the command
made a total of 10 seizures and the items include tramadol, military camouflage
jackets, military hard wares, counterfeit medicaments, dried shark fins and
dried donkey genitals.
`”These items with the cumulative
Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N47.21 billion were seized mainly because of various
forms of infractions. The infractions range from false declarations, non-compliancy
with the estimated threshold and failure to comply with other extant
regulations as enshrined in the Nigeria Customs Service Act (NCS ACT),'' he
said.
He pointed out that most of the
relevant items had been handed over to concerned sister agencies in the spirit
of inter-agency collaboration.
He said that the command had
maintained an open-door policy and resolved a lot of issues of common interest
with concerned stakeholders.
He appreciated the commands
critical stakeholders, sister agencies and the media for their collaborative
efforts and synergy while carrying out their statutory mandate in the state.
“I want to appreciate the CGC and
his management team for opportunity to perform and urge officers and men of the
command to remain focus and steadfast in discharging their assigned
responsibilities,'' he said.
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