The Nigeria Customs Service, Tin Can Island Port Command, has said that it generated N183 billion in eight months.
This development was sequel to the co-ordinated activities of the Customs Area Command, Controller Bashar Yusuf, and the entire officers/men.
Bashar disclosed this while profiling the activities of the command. He said that the command has had a sustained high revenue profile since the beginning of the year, a feat he attributed to deliberate creative policies and stimulus plans aimed at blocking all possible areas of revenue loss.
Specifically, he said, the revenue for August alone stood at over N28 billion, which is the highest in the annals of the command, particularly in the corresponding periods over the past years.
However, the command generated N183 billion between January and August , 2017 as against the sum of N156 billion during the same period under review despite global economic recession.
“It, therefore, implies that but for the exclusion of 41 items from forex window, the command could have doubled its revenue profile.
A further analysis shows that the command is becoming more thorough in its revenue drive, to the extent that all high-yielding revenue consignments are closely monitored to avoid circumvention of procedure,” he said.
The controller stated that the Customs High Command expects so much from Tin Can Command and as such the command will continue to develop adequate operational template and modalities that will be capable of entrenching integrity in the acumen of our operations. He pointed out that all officers/men of the command have a compelling need to discharge their functions in line with the change mantra of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Colonel Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd).
While extolling the virtues of the customs management, Bashar vowed to sustain and surpass the revenue target of the command in line with the expectations of the Nigeria Customs Service Management.
