Maritime

Oyo customs generates over N13b in eleven months

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11 years ago

December 19, 2015

By DAPO SALAMI IBADAN

The Nigeria Custom service, Oyo and Osun command has revealed it has generated over N13billion between the months of January and November 2015.

The command had also made over three hundred million naira in the said months.

Briefing the pressmen at the command headquarters in Ibadan, the custom area commander, Abdulsalam Hazzan said the command would continue to build on its achievements both on revenue generation and anti-smuggling combat, adding that it is ready to confront all the challenges militating against its success.

According to him, despite the awareness and enlightenment campaigns under the platform of Customs Community Consultative Forum (CCCF), some unscrupulous smugglers continue to smuggle unacceptable goods.

The Oyo/Osun command has continued to reinvigorate and intensify efforts in the command’s anti-smuggling drive, yesterday Monday 14th December, 2015 at 1am through intelligence gathering a combined team bombarded a forest along kishi-Igbeti axis where recalcitrant rice smugglers hid stack of foreign imported rice.

The bags of rice were brought into the command in five loaded truck. This seizure will send a serious warning signal that there is no hiding place or going back with duty payment on rice importation from the borders.

It is worthy of note to mention that the command generated a total of N144, 285,138.00 from 2156 metric tonnes (43,120) (50kg) bags of rice between October and November, 2015 when the restriction on duty collection from the borders was removed. This is a great achievement under the management of our new controller general of Customs Col. Hameed Ibrahim (rtd).

The Oyo/Osun command between the months of January and November, 2015 generated a total of Thirteen billion, Two hundred and One million, Nine hundred and Eighty-Seven thousand, Three hundred and Twenty naira, Seventy-seven kobo (N13,201,987,322.77)

“We officers and men of Oyo/Osun command are ready to confront all the challenges that militates against our successes and continue to build on the achievements so far made in both revenue generation and anti-smuggling.”

It is troubling to observe that despite the sensitization and enlightenment campaigns under the platform of Customs Community Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd).