ZAINAB JUNAID
Apapa Command of Nigeria Customs Service(NCS) has generated a total of N540,431,401,641 revenue from January to July 2023.
Abubakar Usman, Public Relations Officer of the command disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on customs/media platform today.
The statement reads that Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs, Mohammed Auwal, sued for compliance and teamwork while at a farewell session with senior officers of the command.
ACG Mohammed Auwal, who until Friday July 28, 2023 was Customs Area Controller of Apapa Command, charged the officers on teamwork and full compliance as it is the bedrock of port efficiency.
He also appreciated their performance especially on the revenue collected so far as it depicted level of leakage prevention at the port, zero compromise for duty evasion and due diligence in the face of reduced volume of trade.
While thanking the officers and stakeholders for their support, the ACG described the various interventions such as demand notices to recover identified shortfalls in revenue as helpful.
He specifically commended them for the revenue of N119,049,235,263 collected for the month of July 2023, which is presently the highest monthly revenue made by the command. N95b collected in January and August 2022 has been the highest monthly collection so far before the ₦119bn was collected this July.
However, on his new promotion, ACG Mohammed thanked the officers, other government agencies, and members of the Apapa port community for their cooperation throughout his time as Area Controller.
"The job of preventing prohibited items such as arms, ammunition, illicit drugs, and others under the import and export prohibition lists from entering or exiting the country through Apapa port was treated as a collective duty under his watch, he said.
He described inter-agency synergy and intelligence sharing as the first giant step in defeating criminals who seek to use ports for their unlawful activities.
To him, " Compliance is one word that appeals to both government and private sector stakeholders because we are all governed by rules to which we owe duty to obey."
"Apapa port holds potential to handle the highest volume of trade in West and Central Africa with the possibility of being a trade hub for seamless cargo movement if importers, agents, and freight forwarders comply by making sincere declarations and avoiding smuggling".
ACG Muhammed Auwal was officially decorated with his new ACG rank on Monday, July 31 2023, by the Ag. Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR in Abuja.
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