Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has disclosed that it generated a total sum of N6.2 billion as revenue between April and June 2023.
Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Friday, on activities of the command in the second quarter of 2023, the Customs Area Controller, Kehinde Ilesanmi, said that the money represents 9.14 per cent of the revenue increase when compared to preceding year 2022.
“The Command has at the end of the second quarter 2023, generated the sum of N6, 246, 485,827.97. This amount represents 9.14% of the revenue increment compared to preceding year 2022”.
He added that the command under his watch between January and June this year has collected and remitted the sum of N9, 813,483,412.09 to the federation account.
“This amount is above what was collected from (January-June, 2022) with the sum of N5,762,552,633.87,” he stated.
Ilesanmi stated that the results of the command’s anti-smuggling activities coupled with its renewed drive in utilization of cutting edge strategies had led to 56 seizures of different items with Duty Paid Value (DPV) N48,822,400.00.
He listed items seized during the period under review to include nine units of used vehicles of different types, 813 bags of foreign parboiled rice, 24,950 litres of petroleum product in 998 jerrycans and 14 kegs of vegetable oil of 25 litres.
“The seizures were successfully accomplished as a result of the renewed determination of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, to rid the country of all forms of illegal importation.
“These positive harvests in the areas of anti-smuggling and revenue generation are a clear testimony of what can be achieved under a brand new leadership of the Service.
“I want to call on Nigerians, the media in particular, to support the Command by providing credible information that will help nip smuggling in the bud,” Ilesanmi said.
The Comptroller, who said that smuggling of PMS had reduced since the federal government effected fuel subsidy removal, lamented that smugglers were still persistent in the illicit trade of PMS smuggling to neighbouring African countries.
He explained that the volume of PMS being purchased by Nigerians had drastically reduced due to economic reality, saying that the volume to be smuggled had also reduced.
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