Customs generates N573bn in five months - The Nation Nigeria

This revelation was made by the Comptroller Accounts, Sadiq Ibrahim Ismailia, when a delegation of the Customs authorities led by the Deputy Comptroller General of Customs , DCG Sanusi Abubakar Umar, had an interactive session with the Senate Committee on Customs in Abuja.

Ismaila added that the agency has so far spent the sum of N300million on its yet to be concluded recruitment exercise of 3,200 officers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.A member of the Committee, Senator Suleiman Kwari , sought to know how the agency can claim it has spent N400million for training of its officers in view of the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown and restrictions.

On the non-return of unspent funds, Umar said: “Customs is now a performance-based agency. We are not a treasury-sponsored agency, which normally makes return to the treasury any amount not spent. Where we have any shortfall, we don’t have anybody backing us and we cannot borrow from the bank.” Senator Francis Fadahunsi noted that in the agency’s surplus of 2018, about N34 billion was given back to Customs in 2019 as its own percentage.

Members of the panel however noted that the Service failed to provide the details of the surplus in the documents submitted to the Committee.

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