Cotecna Trains More Customs Officers

Foremost scanning service provider in the nation’s international trade sector, Cotecna Destination Inspection Limited (CDIL), has graduated nine Senior Customs officers who were recently trained in the areas of general scanner operations and image analysis.

The officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) who fall between the ranks of Assistant Controllers and Controllers were certified as capable of carrying out the specialized import trade operations at the Scanner Site of the Apapa Ports Complex, recently.

Controller-General of the Service, Abdullahi Inde Dikko, who was represented by the Area Controller of the premier Apapa port, Controller Yusuf Garko at the closing ceremony, thanked the service provider for the quality of training it had so far delivered to different cadres of NCS officers.

The graduation of the nine senior officers brings to 1,648 the number of officers and men of the service who have been trained by CDIL in various aspects of customs operations since the scheme commenced in 2006.

Another set of 13 officers were trained in March, on the use of modern tools to carry out Valuation and Classification. The officers underwent a two-month classroom and experiential training at the Valuation and Classification Centre (VCC) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

The Apapa Ports Area Controller said that through the trainings from Cotecna, “it is evident that customs men have become the envy of other agencies that see us as expert in the international trade business”.

—Esther Komolafe