The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it seized contraband worth N12 billion between January and September this year.
At a briefing yesterday, the controller in charge of the command, Yusuf Malanta, said the feat resulted from the proactive enforcement of the anti-smuggling regulations.
Malanta said the seizures were achieved through intelligence sharing with other relevant government agencies
He said: ‘’Within the period under review (January to September), the command recorded 145 seizures of various items with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N12, 496, 672,122.00.’
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‘’ These seized items include unregistered medicaments such as tramadol and codeine, processed/unprocessed wood, used clothing, ladies/men’s footwear, foreign parboiled rice, tomato paste, vegetable oil, and other sundry items that fall under import/export prohibition list.’’
He added that the command generated over N790 billion in revenue within the period under review noting that this shows an improvement of N181.5 billion as against N609 billion collected in the corresponding months of 2021, representing a 29.8 per cent increment.’