The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has reported that it generated N101,781,353,765.23 from August to September this year.
Specifically, the Command raked in N68,668,095,723.16 in August and N33,113,258,042.00 in the month of September.
Speaking on the performance of the Command during the two-month period, while addressing stakeholders recently, the Controller, Comptroller Abubakar Bashir, assured that his team would operate based on the reform programme which targets maximum revenue collection, and encourage improved compliance by operators freight forwarders.
Bashir disclosed further that he would establish a programme to sensitize stakeholders on the Command’s mandate with a view to realizing the monthly revenue target set by the management.
Speaking during the World Customs Organization (WCO) Team visit to the Command on the “Time Release Study (TRS)”, the Comptroller promised to intensify adequate timing programmes for cargo release of 48 hours, adding that f the five alerts placed on cargo release has been streamlined to three.
Bashir tasked importers and their agents to embrace the culture of transparent transactions, rather than under-declaration and the false declaration of their consignments, warning that any operator that violates the rules will be made to face the full weight of the law.
On complaints by operators on increasing multiple alerts, he hinted that 80 percent of the alerts had been linked to trade infractions as a result of non-compliance by importers and their agents with the laid down requirements on clearance of goods.
