The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area Command, has generated N790.6 billion between January and September 2022.
Comptroller Malanta Yusuf, the command’s Area Controller, said the result shows an exponential improvement of N181.5 billion when compared with N609 billion collected in the corresponding period of 2021, representing 29.8 per cent increment.
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“This remarkable achievement was made possible because of our officers’ tireless commitment to ensure that all revenue leakages are being mitigated.
“This is as well as sustaining the level of compliance by the importers/stakeholders in the clearance value chain,” he said.
For the period under review, the command recorded 145 seizures of various items with a duty paid value (DPV) of N12,496,672,122.
The seized items include unregistered medicaments such as tramadol and codeine, processed/unprocessed wood, used clothing, ladies men’s footwear, foreign parboiled rice, tomato paste, vegetable oil and other sundry items that falls under import/export prohibition list.
He said that the command had made tremendous increase as regards export in terms of tonnage and value.
Yusuf said that it recorded about N181 billion value of export and 160 million tonnes of various items of export.
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