Customs generates N100bn in May, highest-ever monthly revenue

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it recorded a total sum of N100.1 billion as monthly revenue collection in May this year, making it the highest ever recorded by the Service.

The Comptroller-General of Customs Service, Hameed Ali, made the disclosure at the graduation of forty senior officers of the Senior Division Course One from Nigeria Customs Commands and Staff College on Thursday in Abuja.

The Customs boss noted that the unprecedented achievement recorded in the area of revenue generation was as a result of the reforms embarked upon by the management of the NCS under his leadership.

According to him, the reforms have helped in blocking leakages in revenue, stressing that the Service was ready to generate more revenue for the Federal Government.

“Last month, May 2018, was the month we realised our highest collection in terms of monthly revenue. As it stands today, we collected a total of N100.1bn.

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“We do hope that this feat will continue and we are hoping that the inflow of imports will continue and the blockage of the leakages will continue at the rate we have. Then we will see an increase in revenue,” Ali said.

The Customs boss however, called on the Federal Government to review the salary structure of the Service due to the feat recorded in revenue generation.

He stressed that the officers and men of the NCS were the least paid when compared to other members of staff of other revenue-generating agencies in the country.

“With this monumental increase in what we are collecting for the government, I, therefore, plead that we should be considered with our peers in the service. I believe that if we do this, it will help in forgetting corruption in the service,” he added.

Ali urged the graduates to use the knowledge they acquired at the college to assist in taking the Service to greater heights.

Dignitaries present at the event included Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai; Chief of Air Staff, Sadiq Abubakar; Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, and other top officials of the government.

In a related development, the Ogun Command of the NSC said that within the period of May 2 to June 4, 2018, it generated a total revenue of N438 million.

A statement to that effect by the command’s PRO, ASC1, MAIWADA A.A, also stated that it made a seizure of 51 vehicles, 5,103 bags of foreign rice (50 kg each), and 102 kegs of petrol (PMS) of 25 litres each among other items.

He noted that “Most spectacular among the seizures is a new brand Range Rover (velar) 2018/2019 model seized. The said vehicle which happen to be the second seizure of such in this years (sic) has a DPV of 64,249,064.80”.

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