The Nigeria
Customs Service of Niger, Kogi and Kwara Area Command generated about N308
million as Internally Generated Revenue in July 2017.
Comptroller
Benjamin Binga in charge of the three states disclosed this in an interview
with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Saturday.
Binga said
that this was against the N219 million generated in July 2016, recording an
increase of N89 million in 2017.
He said that
the increase was achieved based on the command zero tolerance against illegal
activities.
He said that
the area command had put in place adequate working measures to prevent all
forms of smuggling business in the three states.
“We have
identified and blocked all illegal routes where smugglers are using in our area
of jurisdictions to prevent us from meeting our yearly target of N 2.8
billion,” he said.
Binga called
on officers and men of the area command to put in their best in their day to
day activities, saying “hard working officers will be rewarded’’.
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