Customs generate N695.2m in Seme

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Command, has generated about N695.2 million as revenue for the month of June.

The command’s spokesperson, Selechang Taupyen said in a statement that the revenue represented 69 per cent of the command’s monthly target of N1.1 billion.

According to him, the increment on the revenue generated was due to the gradual increase in the economic activities across the nation’s land border.

He said: “The commencement of the flexible CBN foreign exchange policy of the Federal Government, which allows for the determination of the exchange rate by market forces also attributed to it.

“We will ensure that the revenue generated every month meet up the required target,” the statement said.

He noted that a total of 64 seizures, with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N35.693 million, were seized during the period.

The statement said that the Area Controller, Comptroller Victor Dimka, re-iterated the command’s commitment in the aggressive patrol against smuggling activities across the land border.

“No campaign of calumny in the pages of newspapers will stop the command from combating and suppressing smuggling activities to a minimal level.

“A situation where officers performing their legitimate functions are always ambushed and maimed with dangerous weapons cannot be accepted nor tolerated.

“Having taken time at different for a like the Customs Community Consultative Forum (CCCF) to sensitise the border communities on the dangers of smuggling, the command calls on the community leaders to sensitize those who continue to take pleasure In the act, despite government policies banning the importation of such goods,” Dimka said in the statement.

The command noted that it would remain resolute and undaunted in the pursuit of its mandate of suppression of smuggling at the busiest land border in West Africa.