Harboursandport.com: Lagos --- The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that smuggling robs the nation of accruable revenue as well as deprive her of the necessary statistics needed to plan for the development of the country.
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| Some exotic vehicles impounded by the Unit |
Disclosing this in Lagos, Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the Federal Operations Unit, FOU zone "A", Mohammed Uba Garba, said that cargoes smuggled are not captured in the inflow and outflow of statistics of goods brought into the country but that such goods end competing for the available infrastructure in the country.
Mohammed explained that for example, if the correct number of vehicles shipped into the country; the leaders would know how many vehicles are brought into the country, the kinds of roads needed to be constructed, how many vehicles licenses would be corrected etc.
The Customs boss advised smugglers and intending smugglers to stay away from smuggler as the officers and men of the Command are ready to chase them out of business.
He also pointed out that the Command raked into the federation account over N1.6 billion as Duty Paid Value, DPV from seized contraband goods, under declaration and concealment by smugglers and importers in the month of January.
Mohemmed said amongst seized items are 31luxury vehicles, 14 trailers of foreign per boiled rice, 1,652 cartons of frozen poultry products, vegetable oil, Indian Hemp, second-hand clothes amongst others.
The Customs boss explained that the detained vehicles include four Rolls Royce, one Porsche Panamera, one Jaguar, one Bentley, two Lexus Jeep, two G Wagon, one Toyota Land Cruiser, five Toyota Corolla, seven Mercedes Benz amongst other mostly 2017 models.
He noted that the 31 vehicles alone have a DPV of N1.42 billion. The Customs boss said some of the vehicles were intercepted Ijebu Ode expressway, others were evacuated at various raid in Parkview Estate, Victoria Island, Banana Island, Alhaji Bankole Crescent Ikeja and Tola Adewunmi Street Maryland, Lagos.
He also disclosed that the DPV for the rice, 10 bags of Indian Hemp, 159 bales of second-hand clothes and vegetable oil were N103.6 million, N960,000, N5,724,000 and N4,063,500 respectively.
Similarly, he pointed out that the DPV for 1,652 cartons of frozen poultry products, 2,208 pieces of used tyres, 500 used compressors, 537 cartons of Indian Whiskey and 60 units of used Chest Freezers/570 bundles of gas hose stood at N9,912,000, N11,924,200, N5,000,000, N33,894,000 and N13,140,000 respectively.
He said the Unit also recovered N91.3 million from under-declared goods bringing the total revenue collected to N1.71 billion within the period under review.
He charged owners of the intercepted vehicles "to come forward with valid Customs clearance documents otherwise they will be liable to seizure and subsequent forfeiture to the federal government in line with the laws of the land."
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