The Apapa Area 1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has released its scorecard for 2011, saying that the command generated a whooping N235, 185,245,803.00 into the Federal Government coffers.
Even though N216 Billion revenue target was set for it at the beginning of the year, the command said it overshot its target by N19 Billion, which was about 8.8percent of the annual target.
The Apapa Area 1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has released its scorecard for 2011, saying that the command generated a whooping N235, 185,245,803.00 into the Federal Government coffers.
Even though N216 Billion revenue target was set for it at the beginning of the year, the command said it overshot its target by N19 Billion, which was about 8.8percent of the annual target.
A comparative analysis of the revenue which was given in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr. Timi Bomodi and which was sent to Shipping Position Daily shows that the command recorded 32 percent increase over the performance of 2010 and an improvement of 81percent over the performance for 2009.
Apart from this, the sum of N178.55 billion was also said to have been collected in year 2010, and N129.817 billion in 2009.
According to the spokesperson, in 2011, the command made 77 seizures of various items including textiles, furniture, vegetable oil, used cars, artificial flowers, used and new electronics, glazed ceramic tiles and so on, compared to the 64 seizures made in 2010.
The Duty Paid Value (DPV) of the seizures for 2011 was put at N394, 717,234.00, compared to that of 2010 which stood at N174, 237,005.42. This according to the statement shows an improvement of 126 percent.
Apart from the seizures made, the Apapa customs also said that it recorded success in the export sector, where in 2011, about 665,010.98 metric tons, 3,700 cartons, 3,386,579.96 kg, and 2,608,445.55 sq meters of 24 different commodities were exported through its command and they include cocoa beans, cocoa cake, cocoa butter, sesame seeds, aluminum ingots, ginger, rubber, palm kernel, hard wood charcoal, hibiscus flowers, cotton, cashew nuts and processed leather.
The total value of the goods exported was put at N132, 707,580,374.00, which is estimated to be 50% of the total export of the nation in the year.
Looking at 2012, the command has however assured that in the current year, it will “continue to create new ways to engage its stakeholders in a bid to improve on its service delivery, but in doing this it will not hesitate to bring to book those whose intentions are fraudulent, and who persist in trying to evade the payment of all proper duties”.
Apart from this, the command explained that one of the challenges it faced last year was integrating the risk mechanisms of other government agencies like SON, NAFDAC and NDLEA and other government agencies that were hitherto present at the ports. It says that this has made it difficult for the command to carry out proper pre-scanning of containers.
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