The Niger Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) generated N1.6 billion as Internally Generated Revenue from January to September this year.
The Area Controller for Niger, Kogi and Kwara States, Comptroller Garba Kabiru, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Minna.
He said that already, sensitive security measures had been put in place to check smuggling as a business in his areas of jurisdiction.
Kabiru said that officers at the border posts had been briefed on measures to prevent smuggling.
“We have positioned our officers in all the identified routes of smugglers in our areas of jurisdiction to apprehend them for prosecution,’’ he said.
The controller called for the support of traditional rulers in the border communities to assist officers with intelligence reports that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of smugglers.
He said that prompt information on movement of smugglers would enable officers to apply appropriate measures that would lead to their arrest.
“We are battle ready for any smuggler and we remain resolved to discharge our primary assignments diligently,’’ Kabiru told NAN.
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