Oyo/Osun Customs Branch Command says it generated over N7.8 billion in earnings and seized contraband items with a Accountability Paid Price of N202 million in January 2025.
The Customs Branch Controller, Dr Ben Oramalugo, made the disclosure on Friday in Ibadan generation briefing newsmen at the Command’s scorecard for 2024 in addition to for January 2025.
Oramalugo mentioned the feat was once accomplished in spite of the common financial status and the implementation of diverse fiscal insurance policies geared toward boosting the financial system.
He indexed the seizures to incorporate 170 luggage of 50kg overseas rice, 1,667 old tyres, 32 bales of old garments, two sacks of old sneakers and 40 kegs of 25 litres of Top rate Motor Spirit.
Oramalugo described the Command’s earnings assortment efficiency in 2024 as remarkable and decent.
“In 2024 the Command generated N82.2 billion for the Federal Executive. The volume gathered is 15.3 in keeping with cent upper than the N71.2 billion gathered in 2023.
“The total revenue received in 2024 is the largest since the inception of the Command,” he mentioned.
Oramalugo additionally mentioned that the Command made super advance in countering illegal actions that endangered Nigeria’s safety and impeded the expansion of native trade.
He mentioned that seizures and interceptions of contraband items in 2024 stood at N5.3 billion which was once immense when in comparison to the N451.4 million DPV in 2023.
The Command, he added, intercepted and seized smuggled items with a Accountability Paid Price of N202 million between Dec. 20, 2024 and Jan. 31.
“As we performed those anti-smuggling operations, we remained excited by protective the pursuits of native producers and industries.
“Our efforts ensured that cheaper, substandard, and harmful goods were kept out of our markets, thereby allowing local producers to thrive and ensuring the health and safety of citizens,” Oramalugo mentioned.
He mentioned that the interception and seizures had tremendously lowered the smuggling of faux medication and alternative contraband items within the Command’s branch of protection.
Oramalugo, who mentioned he have been deployed to Seme Command, favored the team of workers for his or her aid, including that the success should not have been imaginable with out them.
He thanked the Comptroller-Basic of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, and his control staff for his or her aid and for giving him upper tasks.
(NAN)