The Apapa Port Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reported that it raked in a total of N1,227,431,323,016.24 as revenue between January and July 2024, with the N201,853,406,964.61
collected in July being its highest monthly collection in the history of the Service.
The Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Babatunde Olomu, who gave these figures on Wednesday, assured that the Command’s team was determined to surpass the current revenue collection value in the months ahead.
According to him, the collected revenue by the Command from January to July this year is more than the total revenue collected from January to December 2023
Olomu, in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, CSC Abubakar Usman, attributed the revenue collection feat recorded by the Command to the implementation of the NCS Comptroller-General’s thrust of time release study to facilitate trade without delay.
The Comptroller expatiated: “I am optimistic about the possibility of beating this record as we look forward to surpassing it in months to come
“For the first seven months of 2024, that is January to July this year, the Apapa Area Command generated a total of N1,227,431,323,016.24. What has been generated so far for seven months is above the total collected revenue by the command in 2023, which was N1,172,414,793,960.32.
“In clear terms, our 2024 seven months collection is above last year’s twelve months total collection. Worthy of note is the interventions from the Tariff and Trade Department, which has contributed immensely to the successes achieved thus far.
Our compliance desk, dispute resolution team, Valuation, PCA, CIU and other units aimed at promoting seamless trade have been reinvigorated with daily,weekly and monthly evaluation by my office to oversee the progress we are making.
“We are committed to doing more in line with the directives and motivating examples of the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR dsm psc (+) Apapa Command handles the highest volume of trade for the NCS, collects the highest revenue, and therefore is saddled with a higher degree of expectation from the management of the service and the government”, Olomu added.
He advised Apapa port users to only engage in legitimate trade and restated the Command team’s determination to frustrate all forms of illegal import-export trade activities in order to avoid any revenue leakage within the Command.
