CGC Adeniyi one year in office: Customs count blessings, record N4.49trn revenue, massive seizures
Maureen Aguta
As the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Wednesday marked the one of appointment of Comptroller General of Customs; Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, the CGC has announced that the service raked in over N4.49 trillion revenue to the Federation Account in 12 calendar months, even as he disclosed that the Nigeria Customs Service under his watch has become turbo charged to fight smuggling and other illegal trade practices in the ports border stations.
Sequel to this, the service in the last 12 months has recorded massive of assorted contraband goods
On the revenue collection, CGC Adeniyi disclosed that the N4.49trillion revenue was a quantum rise of 74 per cent when compared with the figure for the same period last year which was N2.58 trillion.
According to him, the amount was realised between June 2023 and May 2024.
He disclosed that there has been a sustained increase of 70.13 per cent in average monthly generation since he assumed office compared to the trend in the previous year.
The CG also added that there has been an average monthly revenue collection of N343 billion in the past one year as against N202 billion during the same period last year.
CGC Adeniyi disclosed that there was a continued 122.35 per cent increase in revenue collection in the first quarter of 2024 as against the trend last year.
He disclosed that in June, the Service recorded an all-time-high daily collection of N58.5 billion on June 13, this year.
The customs boss explained that the impressive performance was due to strategic initiatives introduced by the Service.
He identified some of the strategies as N15 billion recovered by the “Revenue Review Performance Recovery exercise; N2.79 billion also recovered from the 90-day window for the regularisation of the documents of uncustomed vehicles; and N1.5 billion recovered from 1,705 overtime containers and 981 vehicles from the seaports”.
On anti-smuggling, he reiterated that NCS recorded massive seizures of different goods, including 63 seizures of animal and wildlife products with duty paid value of N566 million.
Others were seven seizures of arms and ammunition at the ports and borders, a combined total of 127 cases involving narcotics and pharmaceutical products valued at over N6 billion, 724 seizures, involving 2.93 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) which were about to be smuggled out of the country.