Customs Generates N20bn At Ogun II Excise Command

The Customs Area Controller (CAC) for Ogun II Excise Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Comptroller Bisi Alade, yesterday disclosed that his command generated a total revenue collection of N20, 942, 045, 155: 04 on Excise Duties between January and August 2024.

Alade disclosed while briefing the NCS’ Zonal Coordinator for Zone “A,” Assistant Controller General (ACG) Saidu Abba Yusuf, on the stewardship of his command when he paid a courtesy visit to the Command’s headquarters in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, yesterday.

This comes just as the NCS’ Zonal Coordinator for Zone “A,” ACG Yusuf, also disclosed that the service was already working towards adopting modern technological devices to man the nation’s porous borders, ensuring more excellent safety and checking smuggling activities in the zone.

Yusuf warned unpatriotic citizens contemplating bringing in firearms and ammunition or any other illicit businesses through any of the Land borders in the South Western Zone of Nigeria to rethink or risk being caught and prosecuted.

CAC Alade informed ACG Yusuf that the whooping sum was the Excise Duty released from the 61 factories and Five new factories that are at different stages of registration, as well as three Free Trade Zones (FTZ) that are operational in the Command’s catchment areas comprising of the Ogun Guangdong Free Trade Zone with 54 enterprises that are all operational at Igbesa; Celplas FTZ which has five fully operational enterprises at Sagamu and the Flour Mill FTZ still under construction at Agbara axis but about to take off with entire operations among others.

Alade, however, intimated to ACG Yusuf some of the challenges inhibiting the compelling performances of his command officers, which principally bothered staff welfare such as accommodations, medical services, and other administrative orders from the NCS’ command headquarters in Abuja.