Kwara: Customs Generates N6.2bn In 2023 Second Quarter, Lists Seized Items

The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service said it generated sum of N6.2 billion between April to June 2023.

The comptroller of Customs in charge of Kwara Command, Kehinde Ilesanmi disclosed this on Friday in Ilorin, the state capital while briefing Journalists on the activities of the command in the second quarter of 2023, said the amount represents 9.14 percent of the revenue increment compared to year 2022.

“The Command has at the end of the second quarter 2023, generated the sum of N 6, 246, 485,827.97. This amount represent 9.14% of the revenue increment compared to preceding year 2022.”

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He added that the command under his watch between January and June this year has collected and remitted the sum of N9, 813,483,412.09 to federation account.

“This amount is above what was collected from (January-June, 2022) with the sum of N5,762,552,633.87,” he stated.

Ilesanmi stated that the results of the command’s anti-smuggling activities coupled with its renewed drive in utilization of cutting edge strategies had led to 56 seizures of different items with Duty Paid Value (DPV) N48,822,400.00.

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He listed tems seized during the period under review to include

9 units of used vehicles of different types, 813 bags of foreign parboiled rice, 24,950 litres of petroleum product in 998 Jerry cans and 14 kegs of vegetable oil of 25 litres.

“The seizures were successfully accomplished as a result of the renewed determination of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi to rid the country of all forms of illegal importation.

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“These positive harvests in the areas of anti-smuggling and revenue generation are a clear testimony of what can be achieved under a brand new leadership of the Service.

” I want to call on Nigerians, the media in particular to support the Command by providing credible information that will help nip smuggling in the bud,” Ilesanmi added.

He also Acknowledge the reduction in the smuggling of petroleum product since the pronouncement of subsidy removal by president Bola Tinubu led administration.