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The Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)
recorded 25.6 billion as revenue in September 2016.
The Area Controller, Comptroller Bashar Yusuf, disclosed this in a
statement made available on Thursday in Lagos by the Public Relations Officer
of the Command, Uche Ejesieme.
Yusuf said the command had adopted some measures to enhance its
revenue, including identifying and blocking all areas of revenue leakages; and
focusing on capacity building in modern Customs operations.
He lauded the commitment of officers and men of the command in the
discharge of their responsibilities.
The controller said that Tin Can, as a benchmark command was
determined to make the port a hub of the sub-region, with the entrenchment of
due diligence/process in all areas of its operations.
He said that the role of Customs in national development could not
be over-emphasized.
Yusuf said that the Command would not renege on its function of
revenue collection, irrespective of the present global economic challenges
being faced by nations.
The controller was optimistic that the latest innovation of
involving stakeholders in Customs training program would restore sanity to the
system as well as change the orientation of those who believe in circumventing
the due revenue process.
He called for stronger relations between the command and the
stakeholders to achieve expected results.
“Beyond the fact that we hold regular meetings with the critical
stakeholders, I have always given the terminal and sectional heads a marching
order.
“This is to ensure that all importers and their agents are
compelled to comply with the extant laws on international trade,” Yusuf said.
He commended importers and agents who complied, for their deep
sense of patriotism, adding that they had helped the command in achieving its
revenue targets.
The controller assured compliant importers and their agents that they
would continue to receive the support of the command.
Yusuf said he would do everything possible to ensure that those
complying enjoy the full benefits of compliance
Credit:
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