Kwara Customs Command generates N6.2bn in three months
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin
The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), generated N6.2 billion between April and June this year .
The amount represents 9.14 percent increment compared to the preceding year 2022.
Comptroller of Customs in charge of the Command, Kehinde Ilesanmi, disclosed this on Friday in Ilorin, while briefing newsmen on the activities of the command in the second quarter of 2023.
According to him, the command, between January and June this year collected and remitted N9,813,483,412.09 to the federation account.
“This amount is above what was collected from January-June, 2022 with the sum of N5,762,552,633.87,” he stated.
Ilesanmi stated that the results of the command’s anti-smuggling activities coupled with its renewed drive in utilization of cutting edge strategies led to 56 seizures of different items with Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N48,822,400.00.
He listed items seized during the period under review to include nine units of used vehicles of different types, 813 bags of foreign parboiled rice, 24,950 litres of petroleum product in 998 jerry cans and 14 kegs of vegetable oil of 25 litres.
“The seizures were successfully accomplished as a result of the renewed determination of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi to rid the country of all forms of illegal importation.
“These positive harvests in the areas of anti-smuggling and revenue generation are a clear testimony of what can be achieved under a brand new leadership of the Service.
“I want to call on Nigerians, the media in particular to support the Command by providing credible information that will help nip smuggling in the bud,” Ilesanmi added.
