This is even as the command said it made a total of 620 seizures with duty paid value (DPV) of N432, 930,517.00 in the same months under review.
In a statement made available to journalists by the Command Spokesman, Saidu Nuruddeen Abdullahi on Monday in Lagos, the Customs Area Controller (CAC) Mohammed, Aliyu A disclosed that the revenue realised is a product of sustained compliance by stakeholders and commitment of the customs officers in the discharge of their duties.
He restated that this laudable feat was achieved despite the daunting challenge of low importation through the border.
The Controller reaffirms his stance in fighting to smuggle to a standstill, as the anti-smuggling unit is deploying a lot of strategies to meet up with the dynamics of smuggling antics that is adopted by the economic saboteurs on daily basis either through approved or illegal routes.
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In a related development, the CAC while sensitising a group of student leaders on a visit to his command, used the occasion to re-inform the general public that passengers on arrival at the border are not to leave the Customs control area without clearance by Customs officials.
He pleads with all commuters through the ever busy Lagos-Abidjan corridor to cooperate with the assigned duty officers at the baggage hall.
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