ABUJA: Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced that it would begin auction of seized and condemned goods to qualified persons on July 1, 2017. Customs said it is reopening the suspended auction scheme after about 18 months following successful test running of the new electronic auction portal. The information was announced on its website at the weekend. It said: “After repeated tests of the e-auction platform Nigeria Customs is now set to deploy the e-auction portal on the 1st of july 2017.
“The portal is now fully networked to designated banks to ensure money accruing from the auction gets to the Central bank of Nigeria Treasury Single Account for transparency and accountability. “After receiving the report, the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd) directed the auction committee to ensure that only proper pictures of the goods as well as detailed information about each are uploaded to avoid and misgiving. “He further stressed the need for more weeks to enable interested members of the public to obtain their Tax identification numbers (TIN) from the federal inland revenue before the commencement date. “The platform which is highly interactive will only give access to holders of TIN. Such tax payers will log in, read the guidelines, pay the non refundable one thousand auction fee and proceed to bid for the items on auction”.
