The House of Representatives has advised the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to seek the help of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to recover monies owed the Federal Government by companies and other investors that have evaded payment of import duties on imported rice.
The House also said the NCS should recover every outstanding monies and seal up their ware houses and other businesses “until the very last kobo is recovered to the government coffers in line with the Customs Act.”
These are some of the landmark recommendations of the Leo Ogor- headed House ad hoc Committee on the evasion of the payment of import duties on rice, which was adopted by the House yesterday in the Committee of the Whole House.
The lawmakers also called for the “ immediate cancellation of the entire quota allocation system and suspension of the 2015 quota allocation.”