The Port Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has generated a revenue of ₦288,392,717,427.00 from January to 6 November, 2024.
The revenue is 34.8 per cent higher than the ₦213,914,304,888.11 that was realised from January to October, 2023.
The Command, under Comptroller Tenny Mankini Daniyan, also broke the monthly revenue record in the month of October 2024 with a collection of ₦44,021,583,356.
Comptroller Daniyan describe the October 2024 monthly collection as the highest in the history of the Command. He expressed confidence in the ability of his officers and men to surpass the record.
The Customs Area Controller attributed the achievements of the Command to a combination of hard work by its officers, compliance by port users and cooperation of sister government agencies in the port.
In the anti-smuggling efforts of the PTML Command, some seizures were made within the period under review and the three suspects who were detained in respect of the seizures have been granted administrative bail.
As contained in a press release by the Customs Public Relations Officer, PTML Command, CSC Muhammad Yakubu, the seized items worth a total of ₦28,478,034.76 Duty Paid Value (DPV).
Some of the items discovered in a 40ft container, No ACLU9664782 included 2,598 pieces of used motor tyres; 12 pieces of used washing machines, six pieces of used fridges; eight pieces of used motor radiator; 36 pieces of used rim cover; eight pieces of used rug carpets; two pieces of used mattresses; two pieces of used wash hand basin and two bags containing used clothes, shoes and bags.
Another 40ft container, No ACLU9810594, contained 56 bags of premium parboiled rice (45.4kg each); 18 bags of Riceland parboiled rice (22.68kg each); 15 bags of Premium parboiled rice (11.34kg each), 20 bags of Premium parboiled rice (4.5kg each); 18 kegs of soybean vegetable oil (15.87kg each).
Other seizures were 12 rounds of 9mm Luger FC Black ammunition and one 9mm Luger live ammunition extracted from one used Mazda CX5; 10 rounds of NIM FC 30-30 blank ammunition; two rounds of 7.62mm x 39 AK hollow ammunition; three rounds of WCC NIM Luger 9mm live ammunition and four rounds of C hollow ammunition extracted from one used Toyota Tacoma;
50 rounds of 76mm live cartridges and 109 empty shells of 76mm, 70mm, and other calibres extracted from one used Toyota Tacoma and 51 rounds of 12GA Winchester live cartridges extracted from one used Lexus RX350.
Also seized by the PTML Command were one Made-in-China SIGSAUER 1911 pistol with serial No: UO3130962526 extracted from one used Toyota Sienna; one Glock 22 Austria pistol with Serial No: KNT003 and thirteen rounds of 9mm hollow ammunition extracted from one used Toyota Tacoma; five rounds of 12GA live catridges extracted from one used Toyota Tundra.
Comptroller Daniyan said; “We must rededicate ourselves to serving our country diligently, firstly as patriotic citizens and as customs officers with mandates to work for the development of our national economy.
“The Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, have a lot of confidence in our ability to deliver excellently as officers with capabilities to use modern trade facilitation tools and platforms like the recently launched B’Odogwu Platform, which is being deployed first in our command as a pilot area.
“As we work into the yuletide period, seeing to the end of 2024, let us continue sustaining two-hour cargo clearance for compliant RoRo consignment, collect maximum revenue without compromising on diligent examination to detect concealment, under valuation and false declaration,” Comptroller Daniyan of the PTML Command stated.
