Ali disclosed
this at a media stakeholders meeting in Abuja. Customs CG, Hameed Ali Ali said
that the essence of the meeting was to have a roundtable with stakeholders to
come up with solution to avoid causing hardship to Nigerians in regards to duty
payment on old vehicles and verification.
He said that
customs had taken further step to ensure that Nigerians, who wanted to verify
the authenticity of their customs duty clearance, could do so at the comfort of
their homes with the use of their mobile phones. “For effective and easy
customs duty clearance verification, you can dial or send SMS to these numbers
094621597 with your vehicle C-number, the year you paid the duty and the port
or location where the vehicle came through into the country.
“Immediately
all that information is given, just in five minutes you will get a response
whether your vehicle duty clearance is genuine or not,’’ Ali said. He said the
essence of the numbers was to ensure stress free verification, to motor dealers
and innocent Nigerian vehicle owners.
According to
him, for easy traffic flow, the last number which is 7 in the digits 094621597
can be either changed to 8 or 9, to get response faster with different customs
personnel on duty at every point in time. Ali said that Nigerians misunderstood
customs intention regarding duty payment on old vehicles, adding that the
excise was actually meant for motor dealers.
He added that
customs later decided to give innocent private vehicle owners, who after
verification, might find out that their vehicles had no genuine duty clearance
to take advantage of the 60 per cent rebate
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