The Nigeria Customs Service has promised to issue passwords to license customs agents in other to protect their licenses and prevent fraudsters from making use of them.
This according the service, will take place by January 1st 2016 after DTI Cafe operators (Direct Traders Input) would have been scrapped by the customs.
The Nigeria Customs Service has promised to issue passwords to license customs agents in other to protect their licenses and prevent fraudsters from making use of them.
This according the service, will take place by January 1st 2016 after DTI Cafe operators (Direct Traders Input) would have been scrapped by the customs.
Deputy Comptroller General, Tariff and Trade; Mr. Akinade Adewuyi gave this assurance on Monday while he was making clarifications during the visit of the Comptroller General of the Customs, Col Alli Hamid Ibrahim (Rtd) visited the port in Lagos to meet stakeholders.
The Customs DCG equally assured port stakeholders that the import restriction list recently issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will be revisited by the Federal Government of Nigeria in order to allow trapped cargoes outside the country to come in.
Adewuyi also revealed that the service has received several applications for issuance of practicing licenses from clearing agents, even as he warned that many of them will be turned down.
He said "we have numerous applications which we have not even considered; we have agents complaining that their agency has been used without their consent at the DTI"
"This was what informed our last meeting at the headquarters that information should be communicated to the operators of the DTI, they are supposed to be here temporarily, by 1st of January next year, the DTI cafe's will be closed down and we are going to give the agents their passwords which is going to be biometrics"
"With this, there is no way anybody can deny that they are not aware that their license has been used, it is a solution we have already agreed upon"
Speaking on the effect of the CBN import restriction list, Adewuyi stated that the Customs service has been badly hit by the policy, noting that if the government is going to collect revenue, the policy has to be revisited.
"But the argument of the CBN is that foreign reserve has depleted, so they are trying to put measures in place to curtail it"
"We are not saying that we should not look inwards, but it has to be gradual and the policy should be re-visited so that people who have their cargoes outside the country can bring them in and we can collect revenue"
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