Harboursandport.com: Lagos --- Nigeria Customs Service, NCS,
Seme Command has generated the sum of N575.6 million as revenue in the month of
July 2018, even as the Command seized 2,000 cartoons of spice gin within the
period.
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| Some seized item at Seme Customs |
The Customs Area Controller, CAC,
Compt. Aliyu Mohammed, said that the anti-smuggling operation of the Command
also made 91 seizures with a Duty Paid Value, DPV of N130.9 million during the
same period under review.
Mohammed expressed satisfaction
over the figure collected disclosing that the revenue represented about 85 per
cent of the target budgeted for the Command.
He noted that seizure of Fire
Spice Gin was as a result of the 42 percent concentrate of alcohol content.
Over 2,000 cartons of the said item was found concealed in a truck with the intention
of evading Customs control.
A statement signed by the Public
Relations officer of the Command, Saidu Nuruddeen Abdullahi, gave DPV of
the seized item as over N13million.
While restating the commitment of
Customs officers of the Command to securing the border against illicit trade
that is harmful to the health and wellbeing of the citizenry, he
further assured that ‘‘the Joint
Border Post will serve as a platform that will simplify Customs procedures
while increasing cooperation, collaboration, coordination and harmonious
working relationships at the border post.
“Based on the WCO (World Customs
Organisation) emphasis on transnational border control management and the
technical simulation/handover of the Joint Border Post by the ECOWAS Commission
at Seme which held on Friday, 27th July 2018; the CAC also disclosed that the
Command is poised to conduct its assigned responsibilities with discipline at
all levels and also ensure border security and seamless facilitation of
legitimate trade, in tandem with the executive order on the ease of doing
business.”
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