The Nigeria Customs Service, Port & Terminal Multipurpose Restricted Command, has revealed that it collected N66.9bn in income for the primary quarter of 2024.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, Muhammad Yakubu, disclosed this in an announcement on Saturday.
Yakubu mentioned in comparison with N44.7bn collected in the identical interval in 2023, it confirmed a distinction of N22.1bn, representing a 49.6 per cent improve.
The Customs Space Controller in control of the command, Saidu Yusuf, described the rise in income assortment as a laudable feat.
He mentioned the command was extra dedicated to commerce facilitation and supporting the federal government’s drive to make sure ease of doing enterprise.
Yusuf thanked the administration of the service for initiating methods to realize quicker cargo clearance.
The CAC reiterated that the command below his watch deliberate to surpass its document of three-hour cargo clearance for compliant merchants.
Based on Yusuf, the launching of the time launch research, which is ongoing, and different deliberate efforts by the Comptroller Normal of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, have contributed to the growth of terminal area and selling ease of doing enterprise in PTML.”
“PTML Command has the potential to realize a two-hour cargo clearance and surpass its current three-hour information if port customers’ compliance stage is improved upon,” Yusuf mentioned.
The PTML Customs boss described the command as one of many most secure and most safe environments for roll-on-roll-off and normal cargoes.
He urged importers and their brokers to benefit from the incentives accessible for compliant merchants, “similar to quick observe, advance rulings, and potential migration to the Authorised Financial Operator standing”.
The controller reminded port customers in PTML of the strong and time-conscious dispute decision mechanism, which he claimed had contributed immensely to the income assortment, commerce facilitation and anti-smuggling capabilities of the command.
Yusuf recommended the federal government and personal sector stakeholders for his or her cooperation and assist in attaining the federal government’s purpose of income assortment and prevention of illegal actions.
He expressed optimism that the command would exceed its annual goal for the 12 months.
He described the importation of automobiles meant for Nigerian roads into neighbouring nations with the intent to smuggle them by means of unapproved roads into Nigeria as unpatriotic and an act of financial sabotage.
Yusuf added that the command had the capability for seamless and environment friendly processing of such vehicle cargoes.
He enjoined officers of the command to maximally deploy accessible expertise and rededicate themselves to the job to realize extra within the second quarter and the primary half of the 12 months.
