The Nigeria Customs Service has allocated revenue figures to various commands and areas to meet up N2trillion Target for 2020.Controller General of Customs , Col. Hameed Ali in a recent circular sighted by our reporter , approved the revenue generation target and directed immediate implementation.
The circular signed by Talatu Mairo Isa, Deputy Comptroller General in charge of Tariff and Trade showed monthly, weekly and daily targets allocated to various commands and formations across the country
Apapa and Tin can Commands got the highest and second highest annual targets of N607,176,076,930.33 and N507,343,170,932.09 respectively. Apapa was also given a daily target of N1,807,071,657.53 and weekly target of N12,649,501,602.72 with a monthly target of N50,598,006,410.86.
Tin can Port command was given a monthly target of N42,278,597,577.67 with weekly target of N10,569,649,394.42 and daily target of N1,509,949,913.49.
Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited Command, the country’s number one vehicle importation port ,got annual target of N238,224,920,038.88 while Portharcourt Area 2 command in Onne was given N238,224,920,038.88
The service started hitting over a trillion Naira annual collection some three years ago under its present CG, who recently directed Area Controllers to forward list of Customs officers suspected to be revenue risk to his office for sanction.
Ali had warned during a recent visit to Lagosthat his administration will not sparecustoms officers seeking to make money from their job outside their legitimate earnings
Isa wrote in the revenue sharing circular that the allocated figures were arrived at based on command peculiarities