Customs Seizes N47.2bn Tramadol, Military Hardware At Lagos Airport

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA) Command has made seizures with duty paid value (DPV) of N47.21 billion in the last one year.
The service said a total of 10 seizures, which includeed tramadol, military camouflage jackets, military hard wares, counterfeit medicaments, dried shark fins and dried donkey genitals were impounded from smugglers at the airport.

The area controller of the command, comptroller Mohammad Yusuf, said the infractions ranged from false declarations, non-compliance with the estimated threshold and failure to comply with other extant regulations as enshrined in the Nigeria Customs Service Act.
He stated that most of the relevant items had been handed over to concerned sister agencies in the spirit of interagency collaboration. Yusuf stressed that the command had maintained an open- door policy and resolved a lot of issues of common interest with concerned stakeholders.
Also, he said that the service generated N90.43 billion in the year 2023 from customs duty and other charges, noting that the command had been given N144 billion as target for 2024. Yusuf noted that in comparison to the revenue collected during the same period in 2022, this stood at N69.77 billion.

He said, “This clearly shows a progressive difference of N20.66 billion, depicting a 29.61 percent increase of collection.

‘’The difference recorded was made possible as a result of the resilience of officers in ensuring that agents were made to do proper declarations and adhere strictly to import/export guidelines in tandem with extant laws.”