2024: Apapa Customs Generates Over N1.87 Trillion Revenue.
By Helen Udo, Outlook Media ABUJA.
Nigeria Customs Service Apapa Area Command , Comptroller Babatunde Olomu generated N264,455,587,792.56 revenue in October 2024, also Hands Over Six Containers of Expired Pharmaceuticals to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
The Customs Area Controlle Apapa Customs Command, Comptroller Babatunde Olomu made this known to newsmen at a press conference on Monday in Lagos Nigeria.
Items intercepted at Apapa Port are unapproved tramadol, codeine cough syrups, injections.
Comptroller Olomu also handed over six (6) containers carrying falsely declared and unwholesome pharmaceutical and controlled products to the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
NCS management is driving a modern and paperless system and here in Apapa we are gearing up to migrate from the old system to a new system while maximizing the benefits of what we have presently. Nevertheless, the command has keyed into trade facilitation tools like AEO and Advanced Ruling to ensure seamless movement of both import and export cargoes.
“Furthermore, in line with the Federal Government agenda of Ease of Doing Business, the Command operates on Saturdays and Sundays to ensure that importers take delivery of their cargoes devoid of any delay. We also have an intra-government working system where all government agencies work together as a team without compromising the mandates of our respective agencies. We equally have a wider customs-stakeholder forum where only issues pertaining to customs are looked into”
“This handover further underscores the robust inter-agency collaboration between the Customs and sister government agencies in the port. It further demonstrates our ability to prevent illicit importation from entering the Nigerian market through the port.he revealed.
“As a service, we owe Nigerians the duty of preventing the import and export of cargo that could undermine their well-being and security. These medical importations have expired, while others are not evaluated by NAFDAC and could cause damages to Nigerians, if consumed,he stressed.
“Today, on the instruction of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, we shall be handing over six (6) containers carrying falsely declared and unwholesome pharmaceutical and controlled products to the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).he said.
He said from January 2024 to date, the command had recorded over thirty-six (36) seizures of various items ranging from used clothings, frozen poultry product, Tramadol, unregistered pharmaceutical products, and other controlled substances. These seizures are valued at over NI.5 billion.