The Federal Operation Unit, Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has collected N43,530,867.25 through issued uncompromising demand notices (DN) on detected and identified shortfalls in duty payments on cargoes already cleared in the South West in November and early December.
Disclosing this during a recent press briefing held in Lagos, acting Controller of the FOU, Zone A, Hussein Ejibunu explained that without exception to the month of November, the Unit has yielded seizures worth a total duty paid value (DPV) of N1,021,263,350.
According to Controller Ejibunu, “Prominent among the seized items are; 8,999 bags of foreign parboiled rice by 50kg (approximately 15 trailer loads); 85,300 litres of PMS; 812 pieces of used tyres; 1 by 40 FT Container STC Charcoal; 2 by 20ft Container containing 4,004 cartons of Tomato Paste; five units of used vehicles (Tokunbo); 40 cartons of 4 &5 litres of vegetable oil; 128 parcels of Indian Hemp; 13 cartons of knock out; 243 bales of used clothing; 2,976 cartons of new shoes and 37 cartons of used poultry
“Fourteen suspects were arrested for different offences during the period under review. Thirteen were released on administrative bail, while one is in custody.
“We were able to achieve the collection of N43,530,867.25 through issued uncompromising demand notices (DN) to collect the detected and identified shortfalls in duty payments.
