* Generates N5.9 Billion In 2023
* Exceeds Revenue Target by N3.9 Billion
* Decorates 34 Officers With New Ranks
The Seme Customs Command of the Nigeria Customs Service in a superlative performance generated a total revenue of N5.946billion in the fiscal year of 2023 having been given a revenue target of N1.966billion for the year, this shows a surplus of a whopping 297 percent.
The command also on Wednesday decorated a total of 34 officers across all cadres ranging from Deputy Comptrollers to Assistant Superintendent of Customs, who have distinguished themselves in their areas of operation and have been found worthy of promotion by the management of the service.
The Customs Area Controller in charge of the command, Comptroller Timi Bomodi while speaking after the official decoration of the 34 officers newly promoted in the command also disclosed that the new revenue record represents a 322 percent increase when compared to the revenue figures of N1.49billion collected in the corresponding period of 2022.
“The 2023 revenue collection is the highest collection since 2019. This reinforces our commitment to ensure that the Lagos-Abidjan Trade Corridor is perceived more as an enabler with huge potential for exponential growth. We will continue to do our very best in ensuring that the command achieves its full potential in trade facilitation without any hindrance”, Comptroller Bomodi assured.
He also disclosed that the command facilitated a total of 222, 442.88 metric tonnes of export products involving 6, 253 laden trucks with Free –On-Board FOB value of N32.4billion. The statistics further show that during the period under review, the Nigeria Export Supervision Scheme NESS realized the sum of N162.9 million while N60.4 million was generated through the 2.5 per cent Export Surcharge using 704 Single Goods Declaration SGD forms.
In the area of Anti Smuggling operation, the command also put up a superlative performance with a total seizure of 513 items valued at N1.37billion which comprises of 24 trailer load of 50kg bags of foreign parboiled rice, 37 tankers or 1.2million litres of premium motor spirit PMS, 39 smuggled vehicles and 8, 278 units of hard drugs and narcotics. Others include 9, 639 cartons of general merchandise goods while a total of 37 suspects were arrested in connection with the various seizures within the Seme Krake axis.
Bomodi said, “The command also made headlines in its enforcement of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES where we recorded the seizures of 152 live parrot birds and other animals protected under the convention and $6million fake bills, among others.
“These successes recorded by the command in the preceding year is attributable to the incentives and motivation given to the officers and men of the command by the management of the service, assuring that theb command will continue to sustain the tempo in the fight against illicit trade within the nooks and crannies of the command.
“Given the encouragement and support we have received from the management of the service; we will not only maintain the tempo but work towards meeting whatever revenue target that will be set for us in the current fiscal year".
Comptroller Bomodi further thanked the Comptroller General of the service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi mfr for making good all his promises, especially in terms of provision of tools for work, payment of 13th month salary and other incentives and welfare packages, accommodation as well as promotion and commendation to officers, who have distinguished themselves in their spheres of operation.
He also thanked other sister security and government agencies operating at the Seme-Krake Joint Border unit for their support and the synergy that exists between them, without which the superlative performance of the command in the outgone year would not have been possible.
He enjoined the promoted officers to see their promotion as a call to duty by reciprocating the good gesture of the management, especially in terms of diligence and dedication to duty.
Responding on behalf of the newly promoted officers, Deputy Comptroller I.D. Musa Psc+, thanked the management for finding them worthy to be promoted, assuring that they will put in their best to justify the confidence reposed on them. He further thanked the CAC, Comptroller Bomodi for providing good leadership and team spirit at the command, which has continued to ginger and motivate the officers and men of the command to work.
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