Apapa Customs Hits Another Revenue Milestone with N16bn Daily Collection
The Apapa Command of Nigeria Customs Service on Friday, February 23, 2024, recorded another revenue collection milestone as it generated N16,021,660,412.00 (Sixteen billion, twenty-one million, six hundred and sixty thousand, four hundred and twelve naira) in a single day.
This figure has become the highest daily revenue collection in the history of the command surpassing the N11.3bn collected on November 22, 2023, and N10bn on August 3, 2023.
Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the Command, Comptroller Babajide Jaiyeoba, who described the feat as one of the expected fallouts of the many strategies he has put in place, urged officers and men of the command to keep up the tempo of zero tolerance for infractions and to remain uncompromising to any form of violation of the Nigeria Customs Service Act 2023.
“The laudable revenue collection in the face of declined volume of trade was achieved as a result of weekly strategy meetings between the CAC and sectional heads to review and evaluate success and challenges with a view to continually improve on the command’s achievements.
“There have also been more regular stakeholder engagements between the command, sister government agencies, importers, exporters, terminal operators, and all others involved in the cargo clearance and supply chain”.
While commending officers of the Command for their dedication to duty exemplified through punctuality and integrity, the Area Controller urged importers, licensed customs agents and freight forwarders to embrace scanning the more as the NCS under CGC Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, is committed to maximum deployment of ICT for trade facilitation.
He described sincere declaration as a mark of integrity that saves time and money, resulting in a win-win situation for everyone. According to him, “not making sincere declaration is poor business decision capable of causing delays, leading to issuance of demand notices and denies stakeholders benefits of enjoying fast track and possible migration to Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status”.
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