Again, Nigeria Customs Service Apapa Area command has on a single day garnered in a whooping sum of
N16,021,660,412.00 (Sixteen billion, twenty-one million, six hundred and sixty thousand, four hundred and twelve naira) as revenue collection to the Federal Government Cover on the 23rd of February 2024 alone.
The Customs Area Controller , (CAC) Comptroller Babajide Jaiyeoba announced loudly that the figures has become the highest daily revenue collection in the history of the command, surpassing N11.3bn collected on November 22, 2023, and N10bn on August 3, 2023.
The CAC described the feat as one of the expected fallouts of the many strategies he has put in place, while he urged officers and men of the command to keep up the tempo of zero tolerance for infractions and non compromise for any violation of the Nigeria Customs Service Act (NCSA) 2023.
Jaiyeoba reiterated that the laudable revenue collection in the face of declined volume of trade was achieved as a result of weekly strategy meetings between the CAC and sectional heads to review and evaluate success and challenges with a view to continually improving on the command’s achievements.
He attributed the success story to the continuous stakeholders engagements between the command, sister government agencies, importers, exporters, terminal operators, and all others involved in the cargo clearance and supply chain.
According to him, there has been a remarkable improvement in the number of containers being scanned to save time and operate in line with the expectations of modern customs administration.
He commended the officers of the command for their dedication to duty exemplified through punctuality and integrity, in same tone, he advised the importers, licensed customs agents and freight forwarders to embrace the use of scanning as the service under CGC Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR is committed to maximum deployment of ICT for trade facilitation.
He stressed that sincerity in declaration is a mark of integrity that saves time, money and will thereafter result into a win-win situation for everyone.
His words, “ failure to making sincere declaration is poor business decision capable of causing delays, leading to issuance of demand notices and denying the declarants of the benefits of enjoying fast track and possible migration to Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status”.
This remarkable information was made available to the media through the command’sCustoms Public Relations Officer, CSC Abubakar Usman for the CAC.
