ABUJA: The Murtala Muhammed Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it made N22.5 billion between January and July.
Its Comptroller, Mr Folorunso Adegoke, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Lagos that the highest revenue figure of N5.2 billion was recorded in July.
NAN reports that the revenue was an improvement over the N18 billion recorded in the corresponding period last year.
“From Jan. 1, 2014 to July 2015, the figure has been showing a steady rise apart from the drop that we had during the election period.
“This was because a lot of people thought Nigeria was going to divide and there would not be any Nigeria after the election but thank God, we are still in together.
“Apart from that time, our revenue has been going up,’’ Adegoke said.
He noted that the July revenue was the highest since the inception of the command.
“We had about N5.2 billion. This is the highest that has ever been generated by any comptroller in this command.
He said necessary checks had been put in place to monitor cargo clearing.
He said:“The operators have been told that the music has changed, the dancing steps have also changed.’’
According to him, several meetings had been held between the terminal operators and the customs management to ensure sanity in the system and correct payment of import duty.
