Tin Can Customs Commissions One-Stop Treatment To Curb Multiple Alerts

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  Generates  N31.8bn in August 

As part of efforts to curb frivolous alerts in Customs procedures at the Tin Can Island Port, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)  recently commissioned a “One Treatment Area” to enhance the operations of the Query and Amendment Department at the Command.

The Customs Command revealed this in a press release yesterday signed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) Mr. Uche Ejisieme.

Highlighting other achievements of the Command in the month of August, the release noted the establishment of an Ulta Modern Canteen and a Mini Sports Pitch also commissioned in an event which attracted wide array of maritime stakeholders.

The Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Musa Baba Abdullahi, while conducting the Zonal Coordinator round the projects, noted that the projects became imperative following the need to re-position the Command to an enviable height in order to add further impetus to its status as the most User Friendly Port in the sub-region.

Declaring open the ‘One Stop Shop’ the Zonal Coordinator, Assistant Comptroller General (ACG) Dahiru Aminu, commended the Area Controller at Tin Can for his thoughtfulness, noting that the facility would address the incessant complaints of multiplicity of alerts, which hitherto was a recurring decimal.

“As the name connotes, stakeholders are enjoined to take advantage of this, especially for the facilitation of Legitimate Trade. The centre will house Query and Amendment (Q & A), Valuation and CIU for the synchronization and harmonization of trade disputes” the Zonal Coordinator said.

Similarly, while commissioning the Ultra Modern Canteen and a Mini Sports Pitch, the Zonal Coordinator, congratulated the CAC for embarking on projects with considerable significance to the well being of the officers/men.

He also commended the Management and Staff of Seven Up Bottling Company Limited for donating a synthetic Mini Pitch as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and noted that it will serve the sporting needs of both officers and their esteemed stakeholder.

On the area of Revenue Collection, the Customs Area Controller declared that the Command collected a total of Thirty-One Billion, Eight Hundred and Forty Eight Million, Two Hundred and Thirty Three Thousand, Five Hundred and Ninety Naira and Thirty Nine Kobo (N31,848,233,590.39) in the month of August, 2018.

This is against the sum of twenty-eight billion, six hundred and three million, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand, two hundred and thirty-two naira, forty-seven kobo (N28,603,925,232.47) during the corresponding period of 2017, representing a difference of Three Billion, Two Hundred and Forty-Four Million, Three Hundred and Eight Thousand, Three Hundred and Fifty-Seven Naira and Ninety-Two Kobo (N3,244,308,357.92)

Meanwhile, the Command also organized a two-day seminar for Association of Nigeria Customs Licensed Agents (ANCLA) 5th – 6th September, 2018 following their formal request for training on “End User Certificate (EUC) Documentation Guideline and Requirement”.

At the event, the CAC harped on the need for Stakeholders to build effective partnership by supporting and enforcing the Fiscal Policies of the Federal Government in terms of Trade, while reiterating his commitment to reward compliant declarants and to sanction complacence.