In about four months to the end of the year, the Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has hit 97.2 per cent of its 2023 revenue target, aiming at a surplus revenue generation as the year ends in December.
Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Dera Nnadi, while disclosing this in a press briefing at the Command on Friday said the Command has already generated N1, 904,459, 390.77 out of the N1, 960,000,000 2023 allotted target.
Nnadi pointed out that the Command made N885, 543,098.11 in the corresponding period in 2022 implying that its revenue has soared by 51.98 per cent.
He attributed this to the painstaking efforts made by the leadership of the Command in partnership with some stakeholders to ensure compliance with its revenue generation agenda.
Commenting on the efforts of the officers to check smuggling, the CACA said the Seme Customs Command has also made other notable seizures recorded between January and August 2023 and listed below outside the fake $6000.
These include 6500 (50kg) bags of rice equivalent to 16 trailer loads of foreign parboiled rice with Duty Paid Value of N312, 242, 064.93k.
13, 835 x 30 litres Jerrycans of Premium Motor Spirit equivalent to 415, 050 liters or 13 petroleum tankers with Duty Paid Value of 738,276, 461k, 15,389 of general merchandise goods.
Also seized were hard Drugs and Narcotics: 41 parcels of Cannabis Sativa, 4,900 Tablets 225mg of Tramadol Tamol-X, 3,600 Tablets 225mg Tramadol Royal 225, 157 Tablets of Heineken Ecstacy and 864 Packs of Cigarette.
Nnadi further disclosed that lso officers and men of the Command acting on credible intelligence intercepted 1,364 (30 litres) Jerrycans of Premium Motor Spirit equivalent to f40,800 litres over one tanker load and with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of (N24, 663, 355) only at the early hours of Friday 8th September, 2023 along the Badagry Coast.
According to him, the duty paid value for items seized for the period January to 8th September 2023 is 1, 827, 362, 619. 00.
Nnadi attributed this to the painstaking efforts made by the leadership of the Command in partnership with its stakeholders to ensure compliance with its revenue generation agenda.
Commenting on the effort of the officers in combating smuggling, he said besides headline seizure fake $6 million equivalent to N2.7 billion the Seme Customs Command has also made other notable seizures recorded between January and August 2023 and listed below.
These include 6500 (50kg) bags of rice equivalent to 16 trailer loads of foreign parboiled rice with Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N312, 242, 064.93k, 13, 835 x 30 litres Jerrycans of Premium Motor Spirit equivalent to 415, 050 litres or 13 petroleum tankers with DPV of 738,276, 461k and 15,389 of General Merchandise Goods.
Also included are hard drugs and narcotics: 41 parcels of Cannabis Sativa
4,900 Tablets 225mg of Tramadol Tamol-X, 3,600 Tablets 225mg Tramadol Royal 225, 157 Tablets of Heineken Ecstacy, and 864 Packs of Cigarette.
He further disclosed that officers and men of the Command acting on credible intelligence intercepted 1,364 (30) litres Jerrycans of Premium Motor Spirit equivalent to 40,800 litres over one tanker load and with a DPV of N24, 663, 355) only at the early hours of Friday 8th September, 2023 along the Badagry coast.
The duty paid value for items seized for the period January to 8th Septmeber 2023, according to him is One Billion, Eight Hundred and Twenty Seven Million, Three Hundred and Sixty Two Thousand, Six Hundred and Nineteen Niara (1, 827, 362, 619. 00).
Highlight of the occasion was the ptresentation of commendation and congratulatory letters from the Ag. Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, to worthy officers of the Command in line with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) dictate of encouraging its personnel.
Recipient of the letters are the officers and men of the Command that were involved in the seizures of $6,000,000 currency, 15 fake international passports and 10 Driver’s license, as well as donkey skins in January