Apapa customs posts ₦167 billion in first half 2017
Apapa Area Command has announced that a total of ₦165,743,266,107.71 revenue was collected for the first half of the year.
In a statement, the command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Ms Nkeiru Nwala, said that the amount represents 49.0 per cent collection on target for the year 2017.
When compared with the total collection during the corresponding period from January to June, 2016, ₦120,967,152,918.00 which is 31.48 per cent was gathered last year.
“This shows that the revenue profile of the command has increased by ₦44,774,113,192.71 which represents 27.0 per cent growth over the previous year.
According to her, the breakdown of the monthly collection is: January ₦25,958,919,218.73; February, ₦24,767,582,067.43; March, ₦26,713,144,429.13; April, ₦25,186,752,882.45; May, ₦33, 618,220, 540.24 and June, ₦29, 498,646,970.73, totalling ₦165,743,266,107.71.
“In view of this, the command said that it has kept up its efforts in collecting maximum revenue which is evident in the revenue profile for the second quarter of the year, 2017.
“This laudable feat was made possible through the exemplary leadership of the Customs Area Controller, Musa Jibril who leaves no stone unturned at blocking revenue leakages in order to enhance the collection of revenue and the sheer determination of officers and commitment of men of the command. Value addition is identified as the driving principle of the command hence the level of enforcement of compliance to extant laws is second to none in the service.
“Only recently in the month of May, 2017, the command handed over to NAFDAC seven seized containers of drugs arrested over false declarations. During the handing over of the seized containers, Comptroller Musa Jibril charged importers to improve their level of discipline and documentation because the consequences of false declarations is outright seizure and possible prosecution,” she said.
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