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Monday, January 27, 2025

Customs initiating innovations to secure Nigeria's borders, earn more revenue - Area comptroller

 


By Samaila Bayo, Birnin Kebbi 


The Area Comptroller of Customs, Kebbi State Command, Iheanacho Ernest Ojike has said the Nigeria Customs Service since inception of the present administration has made many innovations to ensure the nation's borders are well manned, viewed,  protected and generate more revenue for the country.


The  state comptroller while delivering his lecture on the theme : Customs Delivering On Its Commitment to Efficiency, Security and Prosperity to commemorate the 2025 International Customs Day said 90 percent of the seizures made by the service were as a result of the innovations on intelligence gathering technique by its present leadership under the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi.



He said "All the catche of arms, drugs and other contrabands we seized are as a result of the new intelligence network. We can now view and tell whats going on in our bordes.


" We now have scanners, drones in our borders. We have what we called single window technique where all government agencies, NDLEA. DSS. Police Immigration,Port officials can communicate with one another and present a single document to facilitate trading and security at the borders".


He added that customs officers can now work on the intelligence they gathered through the new innovations at the borders. "We can see if they are snuggling out petroleum products out of kebbi through Dole Kaina or any of our borders", he said.


The comptroller said the Customs wouldn't have performed efficiently without other sister agencies such as the police NDLEA, DSS, NAPTIP and other stakeholders, therefore he called for more collaboration among the agencies to achieve objective of the present administration in securing the nation's borders and generate more revenue for the nation.

"With all these we can say we are achieving efficiency, security and prosperity at our borders", he said .


Former customs comptrollers, Hussein Suleiman Kangiwa and Gulumbe who delivered their speeches at the event said the  Nigeria Customs Service has come of age since its formation and has witnessed many positive transformation .


"Its success has made it one of the best and biggest player in the promotion and facilitation of trade in west Africa and the world at large", Kangiwa said.

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