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The Nigeria Customs Service, Port-Harcourt Area ll Command, Onne, has disclosed that it collected a total of N115.264bn from January to June, 2022.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, Ifeoma Onuigbo Ojekwu, in a statement said that the 2022 half-year collection showed a remarkable difference from the N78 billion collected in the first half of 2021 and N46.6 billion collected in the same period of 2020.
She also said that further comparison indicated 147 per cent increase above the 2020 collection and 47per cent above the collections of 2021.
The statement read in part, “Further comparison indicates 147 per cent increase above the 2020 collection and 47 per cent increase above 2021 figure showing differences of N37,097,079,630.91 and N68,597,503,002.82 for 2021 and 2020 respectively.”
NCS also revealed that it made 28 seizures of nine containers valued at N531,386,166.78 duty paid value (DPV) in the first half of this year.
Among the seized items were machetes shipped into the country without an end-user certificate, vegetable oil, military wears, whisky, soap, and used clothings.
Other seizures included used tyres, foreign parboiled rice, tomato paste, used vehicle parts, and among other items.
