The Nigeria Customs Service earned a 10-month high revenue of N95, 760, 763, 642.04 in August 2016, as confirmed by the Head, Customs High Command Public Relations Unit, Assistant Comptroller Adewale Adeniyi.
Adeniyi said the revenue earned was an achievement considering the challengers facing the Service such as the scarcity of forex, low imports and general economic downturn. He further stated that the achievement was a vindication of the 3-point mandate of Col. Hammed Ibrahim Ali Rtd. as the Comptroller General of Customs August. The 3 points, which the Comptroller laid own last year upon assumption of office are reform, restructure and raise revenue.
ThisDay reports that Adeniyi said that the CGC backed up his points with his policy thrust of honesty, integrity and transparency which enabled the Service record such successes.
Knowing that reform and restructuring are activities within the Nigeria Customs Service, while raising the much needed revenue requires cooperation and compliance on the part of stakeholders, the CGC embarked on stakeholders’ visitations to secure their buy into the new way of doing business with the service. After one year at the helm of affairs, the Nigeria Customs Service, revenue generation profile has continued to be on the rise” he said.
Parts of this article originally appeared in ThisDay Live.
