The Nigeria Customs Services (NCS) generated a revenue sum of Twenty Billion, Eight Hundred and Ninety Eight Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Naira, Eleven Kobo (N20,898,557,880.11) only at its Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Area Command in 2022.
This was contained in a Press Statement made available to African Business Travel News (ABTN) on Tuesday by the Command Public Relations Officer (PRO) Superintendent Juliana Destiny Tomo (mnipr) on behalf of the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Mohammed Malami Gidado.
The statement noted that the remarkable achievements made in the Command in terms of revenue collected between August and December 2022 was as a result of seamless travellers’ clearance procedure adopted by the Command as initiated by the CAC over the period.
According to the statement, “The seamless travellers’ clearance procedure adopted by the Command as initiated by the CAC over the period is worthwhile as evidenced in the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Command revenue collected from August to December 2022.”
It continued, “This implies effectiveness of initiated and adopted strategies while measuring performance and Challenges from August to December 2022 compared to the preceding year’s revenue collection of 2021 towards a better performance in the near future.”
It would be recalled that between August and December 2021, the sum of Nineteen Billion,Forty Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Ten Thousand,Six Hundred and Fourteen Naira and Twenty Six Kobo (N19,048,810,614.26) only was the revenue collected by the Command.
Comparing the Command’s performances in revenue collected in 2021 and 2022, Comptroller Gidado stated, “in rounding up the revenue collection at the end of December 2022, the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Command, had a smiling end of year collection of the sum of Twenty Billion, Eight Hundred and Ninety Eight Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Naira, Eleven Kobo (N20,898,557,880.11) only, for the period of January to December, 2022. While in 2021, the sum of Nineteen Billion,Forty Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Ten Thousand,Six Hundred and Fourteen Naira and Twenty Six Kobo (N19,048,810,614.26) only was the revenue collected within same period.
He said this has resulted to an increased collection of One Billion, Eight Hundred and Forty Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Forty Seven Thousand,Two Hundred and Sixty Five Naira, and Eighty Five Kobo (N1,849,747,265.85) only, due to an improved integrity of passengers’ in the declaration of goods and high level of Compliance towards voluntary payment of (Couriers Parcels,Passengers Accompanied and Unaccompanied Baggage) Duty.
In December 2022 alone, the Command collected the sum of One Billion,Seven Hundred and Fifty Eight Million, Five Hundred and Eighty Five thousand, Eighty Seven naira and Fifty Four Kobo (N1,758,585,087.54) only. In the preceding year, the Sum of One billion, Six Hundred and Twenty Million,Forty Four thousand,Nine hundred and Eleven Naira and Forty Five Kobo (N1,620,044,911.45) only, was the revenue collected within same period in 2021.
This implied that the Command had an increased sum of Three Hundred and Ninety Three Million, Three Hundred and Three thousand,Three hundred and Sixty Naira and Seventy Five Kobo (N393,303,360.75) only in 2022.
