FOU Seizes Contraband Goods Worth N97Million In July

Goods worth N97 million were seized by Zone ‘A’ of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) of the Nigeria Customs Service’s (NCS), Lagos in July.
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command Mr Uche Ejesieme said last week that 256 goods were confiscated in July compared with 267 seized in June.
According to Ejesieme, in spite of the seizures, the command has also witnessed some level of compliance.  
“The difference is attributable to the level of compliance, which is at the base of our core function.

Goods worth N97 million were seized by Zone ‘A’ of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) of the Nigeria Customs Service’s (NCS), Lagos in July.
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command Mr Uche Ejesieme said last week that 256 goods were confiscated in July compared with 267 seized in June.
According to Ejesieme, in spite of the seizures, the command has also witnessed some level of compliance.  
“The difference is attributable to the level of compliance, which is at the base of our core function.
“This in turn will have the tendency of affecting very positively the revenue profile of the command in Lagos Zone.
 “Since the resumption of office of Comptroller Dan Ugo, the unit has employed scientific methodologies of tracking smugglers.
“With the result it is very clear that if you go to border stations you will look at their chart. You will discover that they had a kind of jumbo profile in the sense that there is serious increase in their revenues in the commands.
“This as a result of the strategies they put in place,” Ejieseme said.  
He said that 25 cartoons of poultry products worth N25 million were seized from 15 suspected smugglers in July.
The PRO said that the command under its zero tolerant anti-smuggling campaign had spread its drag-net to some areas in its area of jurisdiction.
Ejieseme said that the zero tolerance among others focused on the illegal importation of poultry products and all forms of contraband.