The Customs Area Controller, Tin Can Island Port Command, Mr. Zakari Jibril, has said that the command generated over N151bn between January and August, 2013.
The amount, he said, was N11.6bn higher than the N139.4bn the command generated between January and August, 2012.
Giving a breakdown of the 2013 revenue, the CAC said the command generated N16.3bn in January; N16.3bn in February; N17.5bn in March; N19.1bn in April; N19.9bn in May; N17.6bn in June; N204bn in July; and N23.6bn in August.
Jibril, who noted that the command was constantly striving to improve its revenue-generation profile, said the it would not rest on its efforts.
The CAC said, “In line with the CGC’s directive, we need to let the public know the performance in the command within the period under review. We can see from the available records that the command has performed creditably well in all spheres of our statutory responsibilities. On revenue generation, we have succeeded in sustaining our unprecedented revenue profile since I assumed duty here as the area controller.”
“We are also making frantic efforts to re-orientate officers and stakeholders on the importance of integrity. Hence, ours can be said to be integrity-driven administration which is yielding tremendous positive and unprecedented results as can be seen in the records of our performance.”
Giving details of the seizures during the period under review, Jibril said the command seized 93 units of 40 feet containers; 47 units of 20 feet containers; three unpacked vehicles and 17 other items. He gave the value of the seized items as N481m.
He listed some of the seized items as tissue papers, furniture, soaps, vegetable oil, soft drinks, used clothes, generators, used tyres, lace materials, television stand, automotive batteries, mosquito coil, expired frozen fish, used shoes, glass, television sets, printed wax, cartons of whisky, bales of second hand clothing and bags of basmati rice.