The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Area II Command, Onne Port, Rivers State said that it generated a total of ₦22,184,899,508.00,a milestone revenue on March 7, 2024.
According to a statement signed by the Command Public Relations Officer’, Chief Superintendent of Customs(CSC) Lomba Benjamin, the feat also coincides with an unprecedented monthly revenue collection of ₦50,863,053,945.54, for the month of February 2024.
The figure above, Lomba said, is against the ₦40,290,755,560.96 ever generated in previous months and years.
Lomba in the statement revealed that while a total of ₦124,652,728,187.50, was generated in 49 working days in 2024, that is January, February and the first five working days of March, it is over and above the total figure ₦118,170,072,415.56, collected between January and June, 2023.
Also speaking, the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Baba Imam disclosed that the revenue generated this year has broken four records in the Command.
“In February alone, firstly, it is the highest revenue generated in the history of Area 2 Command so far and the highest revenue generated in a single month. Secondly the figure of February surpasses the monthly revenue target given to the Command.
“Thirdly, the daily collection made on the 7th of March is the highest revenue generated in a single day. Lastly the total revenue of forty nine, 49, working days in 2024 together, is above six month revenue collected between January to June 2023.
“The Command surpassed its daily target of one billion, eight hundred and ninety five million, eight hundred and sixty two thousand, seven hundred and nine naira, forty six kobo (₦1,895,862,709.46) by over 1000% which is the first in the history of daily collections in the Command,” he said.
Speaking further , Imam explained that the revenue milestone of February 2024 represents 23.3 per cent increase above the Command’s monthly revenue target of, ₦41,235,013,930.84, compared to the same period in February 2023, where the command generated ₦17,980,127,317.06, which stands at 183 per cent increase.
The figure according to Imam represents the highest revenue to be collected in the history of Area 2 Command as it surpasses the ₦40,290,755,560.96, collected in January 2024 and ₦38,039,764,327.49, collected in October 2023.
He linked the feat to constant stakeholders engagement, zero tolerance for revenue leakages, synergy and intelligence sharing.
“We have consistently made it clear that the Command welcomes only compliant traders who are willing to operate in accordance with the laid down extant laws and guidelines of importation and exportation.
“The Command is optimistic and deploying various strategies to ensure that this trend continues in order to also surpass not only the monthly target, but equally surpass the target for the year 2024 of four hundred and ninety four billion, eight hundred and twenty million, one hundred and sixty seven thousand, one hundred and seventy naira, seven kobo, ₦494,820,167,170.07,” he said.
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