Customs Rakes N6.2bn in 2023 Second Quarter

Hammed Shittu in Ilorin

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kwara State Command has said that it raked a total sum of N6.2 billion as revenue between April and June 2023.

Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on activities of the command in the second quarter of 2023, the Customs Area Controller, the state command, Mr. Kehinde Ilesanmi, said that,  “the money represents 9.14 per cent of the revenue increase when compared to preceding year 2022.

“The Command has at the end of the second quarter 2023, generated the sum of N 6, 246, 485,827.97.

He added that the command under his watch between January and June this year has collected and remitted the sum of N9, 813,483,412.09 to 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 had led to 56 seizures of different items with Duty Paid Value (DPV) 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, “Ilesanmi said.