The Port Harcourt Area II of the Nigeria Customs Service, Onne in Rivers
State has in the spirit of the government's efforts to create employment
and generate foreign Exchange thorough Exports collected a total of
$64.048million equivalent of N19,589,080,800 with an Exchange rate
ofN305.85 to a Dollar to the coffers of government.
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| CAC Port Harcourt Area11, Comptroller Abubakar Bashir, backing some of the seized items at the briefing |
The command also generated N44,686,266,012.99 through Imports
activities during the same period under review to the federal government
Coffers both recorded in the first half of 2017.
The 2017 half year revenue, surpassed the 2016 amount by N177,865,521.80
Briefing Newsmen on his Command's activities in the past six months, the
Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Abubakar Bashir, said that his
Command's Exports activities has witnessed a great Improvement with a Cost and
Freight Value and Nigeria Exports Supervision Scheme (NESS) from N33.722
to N102.047, which indicates a huge improvement during the same period of last
year.
Comptroller Bashir who described the Onne Command as the flagship of
the Customs Service in the South South, South East zone of Nigeria
said the command is wide and its activities is impacting in the region.
On anti smuggling activities, a total of 20 Seizures, comprising of 18
by 20ft Containers and 2 by 40ft Containers of various items were
recorded. The seized goods were valued at N422,770,096 .Again the seizures
surpassed the 2016 record which was only two containers worth N140,700,000
recorded in the same period.
On Inter agency collaboration, Comptroller Bashir said his command have
a very cordial relationship with other sister agencies in the port. This, he
said lead to the handing over of 11 containers of illegally
imported pharmaceuticals and two containers suspected to contain
conterminated fish confiscated by his Command to NAFDAC.
Despite the tremendous achievements recorded by the Command, Bashir
said, the process of 100% examination of all Containers is very tedious and
usually not very effective as most containers are machine packed at the point
of origin.He complained that manually unstuffing of Containers for
physical examination is fraught with myriads of Challenges.His complaints came
from the back drop that none of the Scanners at the Command is functional.
The Customs boss,commended his officers and Men for the feat.He said,
,"We are comforted by the marked improvement in all performance indices.
The landmarks achieved so far would have been impossible without the
cooperation and determination of officers and Men of the Command who have made
tremendous sacrifices to achieve this goal"
He called on importers and their Agents to desist from trade
malpractices as the new customs system cannot allow that.He also commended the
Comptroller General of the Service, Col Handed Ali and his Management team for
the tremendous reforms carried out in recent time in the Service
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