In eight months Customs generates N151.02 billion

The Nigeria Customs Service, Tin Can Island Port, Lagos recorded significant revenue for the Federal Government in the first eight months of the year (January-August).

The Customs Area Comptroller of Tin Can Island Port, Zakari Jibrin, told reporters during a news briefing that the Tin Can Customs generated N151,020,258,220.00 at the end of last month, an increase of N11,617,002,182.00 over N139,403,256,038.000 generated between January and August.

A breakdown of the revenue shows that N16,343,958,630.00 was made in January, while in February and March N16,273,205,622.00 and N17,560,472,142.00 were generated.

In April, May and June, the command made N19,184,570,458.00, N19,904,250,113.00 and N17637,678,159.00, while in July and August, it raked in N20,433,467,818.00 and N23,682,655,278.00.
Jibrin also said within the period, goods worth N481,356,000.00 were seized. The seizures include 92 containers of 40 feet size, 47 containers of 20 feet size and three unpacked vehicles as well as 17 other items.

He said the seized items include tissue paper, furniture, soaps, vegetable oil, soft drinks, used cloths and generators.

Others are used tyres, lace materials, television stand, automotive batteries, mosquito coil, expired frozen fish, used shoes, glass, television sets, printed wax, cartons of whisky, bales of second-hand clothing and bags of basmati rice, among others.

Jibrin said: “In line with the Comptroller-General Nigeria Customs Service Abdullahi Dikko’s directive, we invited you as our partners in progress to take stock of our performance in the period under review. Available records show that the command has performed well in all spheres of our statutory responsibilities.

“On revenue generation, we have succeeded in sustaining our unprecedented revenue profile since I assumed office as the Area Comptroller. We are making efforts to re-orientate officers and stakeholders on the importance of integrity.

“Ours can be said to be an integrity-driven administration, which is yielding positive results as can be seen in the records of our performance.”

The Nation