THE Tin Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has generated a total of N162,701,701,136.83 between January and June 2018.
According to a statement signed on Monday by the Commands Spokesman, Uche Ejesieme, “the figure generated this year is N32,695,564,140.47 higher than what was generated in 2017 for the corresponding period. In 2017, the Command generated the sum of N130,006,136, 996.36 between January and June.
“This declaration was made by the Customs Area Controller Tin Can Island Port, Comptroller Musa Baba Abdullahi during a chat with some Stakeholders in his office.
“In the words of the Customs Area Controller, We are deploying multi-layered approach in addressing the issues of compliance which is a panacea to trade facilitation, through reward for compliance and ensuring that compliant declarants are given expeditious attention in line with the Presidential directive on Ease of Doing Business.”
Similarly, the Customs Area Controller noted that the Command is at the verge of fully automating key seats in the Command to enable seamless Operations as he made reference to the just concluded training of officers on E-Transire and NSA-End User Certificate Procedure.
On seizures and detentions, the Customs Area Controller stated that the Command effected seizure of assorted offending items ranging from used clothing, children toys, assorted furniture, bags of rice, shoes, handbags, used vehicles etc, with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N138,752,991.00 as against that of 2017 which stood at N88,062,250.00.
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The CAC recalled that during the period under review, the Command also effected seizures of a large quantity of ammunition and other military hardware during scheduled examinations and promised that the Command will not lower its guards in ensuring that such illicit consignments do not pass through.
The CAC appreciated the support of the CGC, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, his Management Team, the Officers and Men of the Command and indeed the esteemed compliant stakeholders for their support during the period under reference. He pointed out that the Command will continue to leverage on the already harnessed competences of its hard-working personnel to carve a niche and remain outstanding in the performance of its statutory mandate.
“We are encouraged by the steady progress in compliance by the Importers and we are optimistic that the trend will continue to show an appreciable response,” Compt. Musa Baba Abdullahi added.
On the recurring issues of multiple alerts due to non-compliance with the Fiscal Policies, the CAC while charging Importers/Agents on honest declarations, assured that with the take-off of the “One Stop Shop” area under construction, the issue of multiple alerts would become history.
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