The Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs, Mohammed Auwal, has said the Apapa Area Command of the Service collected a total of N540,431,401,641 as revenue from January to July 2023.

Spokesperson CSC Abubakar Usman in a statement said Auwal made this known at a farewell session with senior officers of the command.

Auwal, who until Friday, July 28, 2023, was Customs Area Controller of Apapa Command, said the revenue collection justifies their leakage prevention, zero compromise for duty evasion and due diligence in the face of reduced trade volume.

He thanked Officers and Stakeholders for their support and described the various interventions, such as Demand Notices to recover identified shortfalls in revenue, as helpful.

He specifically commended the N119,049,235,263 July 2023 collection, which is presently the highest monthly revenue made by the Command.

Before now, N95b collected in January and August 2022 were the highest monthly collection.

The newly promoted ACG thanked the Officers, other government Agencies and members of the Apapa Port Community for their cooperation throughout his time as Area Controller.

According to him, preventing prohibited items such as arms, ammunition, illicit drugs and others under the import and export prohibition lists from entering or exiting the country through Apapa port was treated as a collective duty under his watch.

Auwal was officially decorated with his rank on Monday, July 31 2023, by the Ag. Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, in Abuja.
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