Ogun Customs posts N10 billion revenue in three months

By Adejoke Adeleye

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun 11 Area Command, says it has generated approximately N10 billion in the last three months in the State.

The revenue generation spans between April and June 2024.

The command’s head, Comptroller Olusola Bisi Alade, at a news conference on Friday in Abeokuta disclosed that not less than 11 factories operating without paying revenue were discovered in the state.

Alade said the Command had been able to generate the sum of N12,830,493,630.06 between January and June 2024.

He said the figure was higher when compared to the same period in 2023 which stood at N8.5 billion, given a differential of N4.326 billion.

Alade stated that the core mandate of the command remained the generation of revenue for the Federal Government, facilitation of legitimate trade and to protect national economic security.

According to him “This attainment is evidence of the diligence, professionalism, and commitment of our officers and men who worked tirelessly to ensure that we met and exceeded the revenue targets given to our command. It is also indicative of our steadfast commitment to the growth of our National economy.

“Our activities in the free trade zones have improved and these brought greater success which is evident in our monthly revenue collections from April to June.”

“In April we raked in N 3,486,961,186.71, in May we made N2,801,833,739.40 while in June our revenue collection leaped to N3,664,776,499.07,” he said.

He assured that the command would continue to put in place the necessary measures to improve the collections with adequate support from other units of the service.

“We shall maintain success through synergy and continued dialogue, by engaging and sensitizing the local and trader communities while discharging our statutory responsibilities of enforcing compliance with government fiscal policies,” he added.