Customs nets N4bn in 3 months

Determined to meeting the set target of N28 billion this year, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Oyo/Osun Area Command, has posted over N4 billion in the first quarter of the fiscal year.

The figure put at N4,611,914,510.32, according to the area controller of the Command, Temitope Ogunkua, was in tandem with its renewed efforts at delivering on the set target.

Ogunkua, who disclosed that the command would also re-strategise and re-engineer the anti-smuggling operation modalities to match the ever evolving challenges posed by smugglers, recalled that a total of 617 vehicles paid duty to the tune of N98,413,032.00.

He said: “On the other hand, the Oyo/Osun Command generated a total of N4,611,914,510.32 in the first quarter of the year 2016.”

Ogunkua also listed the seizures in the first quarter of the year to include; ‘Two hundred and Twenty Six packages of Cannabis Sativa, Three thousand, one hundred and three (3,103) 50kg bags of rice with duty paid value of N24, 793,945.00, a total of 43 fairly used assorted vehicles were arrested with a duty paid value of N52,985,217.00), sixty six cartons of frozen imported poultry products with a duty paid value of N548,262.00 were also intercepted within this period under review.”