COTECNA Assists Customs To Improve Revenue Collection

Cotecna Desination Inspection Limited (CDIL) has assisted the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area 1 Command, in its revenue generation in the last quarter. This was in addition to measures introduced to block revenue leakages at the Lagos seaports and the coorperation it has so far enjoyed from the organisation.

Area Controller of the Command, Suleman Idris, who disclosed this early in the week while receiving a visiting team from Technical Committee on Comprehensive Imports Supervision Scheme (CISS), said that under the scheme, the command collected over N4 billion between January and April 2011, as against the N3.7 billion it netted during the corresponding period last year.

The five-man team that was on a week-long tour to the Lagos seaports as well as the border posts is headed by the Director of Trade and Exchange Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Alhaji Batari Musa. Other members of the committee include Deputy Controller, Mosuro Ayo, representing the Nigeria Customs Service, Mrs. Umma A. Dutse from CBN, Mr. Jimmy Ugwu from the Budget Office of the Federal Ministry of Finance and Mr. Segiru Momodu of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

On hand at the Apapa Fixed Scanner Site to receive the team was the Managing Director of Cotecna Destination Inspection limited, Mr. Adetayo Rabiu, and some top managers of the company.

Putting the increase at about N292.1 million over that of the same period in 2010, Suleman said the series of trainings his officers and men had so far received from the Cotecna had impacted positively on the command’s level of service delivery.