The Tin Can Island Customs Command of the Nigeria Customs
Service (NCS) generated N29.4 billion in January 2018, up from N19.8 billion
generated in the corresponding period of 2017.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Uche
Ejesieme, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) in Lagos on Thursday.
“For January 2017, we actually had N19,834,314,976 but in
January 2018, we realised something very remarkable and spectacular and that
figure is N29,452,828,367.07 kobo.
“The Customs administration we have over the past two years
in Tin Can have actually created a clear paradigm from what it used to be in
the past.
“The controllers are the people who have penchants for
success. They have penchants for turning things around.”
He said that the new Customs Area Controller of the Command,
Comptroller Abdullahi Baba-Musa, had tasked officers to ensure they recover all
revenues for government.
“As the controller came on board, he started fine-tuning his
methodologies.
“First and foremost, identifying all grey areas; identifying
areas of revenue leakages, engaging stakeholders in an interactive forum from
time to time.
“Setting up a training centre where we trained not just our
officers on the rudiments of the job as is expected in terms of global best
practices.
“We also ensure that we train the stakeholders including the
media, to be sure that they key into the change mantra and ideology of the
Customs Comptroller-General.
“So all of these factors actually led to the success we that
we recorded,“ he said.
Ejesieme urged the Federal Government to assist in repairing
the port access road leading to the Tin Can Port to enable the command record
more success in revenue generation.
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