The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), MMIA Command, on Tuesday said it had earned N47.7 billion revenue between January and October this year, surpassing the 2019 target set for it by 110 per cent.
It said importers of frozen foods have devised another means of ensuring their illegal activities continued by diverting their consignments to the nation’s international airports, especially MMA, Lagos.
Its Area Controller, Mrs. Lena Oyama, said the revenue generated was an improvement when compared with what was earned the same period last year. The command had generated N44billion in 10 months last year.
The breakdown of the generation indicated that in August, it generated N4.3 billion, which represented 109.6 per cent increase from the expected revenue. It generated N4.320billion, which represented 100.6 per cent increase of the expected revenue target for the month of August.
For the month of September, the command generated N4.9billion, which also represented 115.6 per cent increase in revenue target, exceeding the monthly target for the command with N674.1million.
Oyama said for the month of October, the command earned N4,7 billion, which indicated an increase of 109.6 per cent.
The command impounded 25 packages of drones, 23 bags of stun guns two packages of military camouflage (20 in each package) were intercepted.