INTERVIEW: How Nigerian Customs can generate N2 trillion annually – Rep

October 10, 2021In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Bakare Majeed, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Customs, Leke Abejide , speaks on how the Nigerian Customs Service can generate more revenue for the country, his role as a member of a minority party in the lower house, Kogi politics, among other issues. Excerpts:

PT: Some would say this issue has been on for a while now. Efforts by the Lagos State Government to clear the roads of trucks, the call up system, we still have problems at the ports……..The call up system is from the Nigerian Ports Authority, which they have advanced, and it is better now. If you go to the ports, it is better than how it was six months ago. They are modernising the call up.

PT: In one of your submissions during the recent hearing on 2022-2024 MTEF, you said if the issue of scanners at the ports are resolved, that the NCS could be remitting more than N2 trillion. At a time of high prices of food and other commodities, should attention be on increasing revenue targets or reducing duties to allow more importation?What we mean are the items that are not declared. You can’t see them with your naked eyes, but with scanners. Scanner will give you more details.

Abejide: My election, any time, any day, is not about the party. Even those that voted for me did not know the party; it is my name they will ask. They will ask ‘where is the man paying WAEC fees, where is the husband of widows? That is the name they call me. Some call me by my direct name. They don’t talk about parties, so it is not a matter of parties in my place.

Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)

The more they generates the more goods and services increase. fulani's do go to school but they love leadership forgetting that education matters much in leadership. Open our borders and let trade flow. Since the inception of this rulership all the borders were closed for nothing

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