The Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Ali, said that the service has seized 3,665 vehicles from 2015 till date with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of over N13 billion. NAN reports that Ali said this during his lecture titled “Problem of Smuggling and its attendant Consequence on Nigeria’ s Economy and the Way Out” at the IBB Golf and Country Club, on Thursday, October 5, in Abuja.

Ali, who gave a breakdown of the seizures, said in 2015, 1,917 vehicles were seized with DPV of N3.856 billion and 1,483 vehicles were seized in 2016 with DPV of N2.683 billion. He added that from January to August his year 265 were seized with DPV of N6.625 billion. The Customs boss said that the high value recorded in 2017 was because most of the vehicles were of high value which included 15 bullet proof vehicles.

Ali said out of the 18 vehicles seized in September in Abuja over non-duty payment, 13 were bullet proof vehicles of which 10 have no Customs papers. He said that Nigeria imported about 70% of its needs and that 45% of all the imports were smuggled into the country. “Lack of patriotism among the traders and complicity of Customs officers has added to the problem.

“Over 85 per cent traders are not trustworthy as they falsify documents except for about five per cent of them who can be trusted and often have their goods cleared within 48 hours,” Ali said. He said that the four arms containers intercepted this year were concealed with many cases of under declaration and diversion of imported goods.

On the challenges of Customs in fighting smuggling, he said the Service lost three officers this year. Ali said that Customs under him was being sanitised and now very few corrupt officers in its midst. “Ninety per cent of our officers are now imbibing the culture of doing the right thing,” he said. He urged Nigerians to report corrupt officers to enable the service weed out the 10 per cent of the corrupt officers.

Ali said that importers must be patriotic and stop inducing officers to fast track clearance of their goods. According to him, smuggling is a problem to the society that kills the local industries, adding that it hinders the growth of the economy. Ali attributed the cause of smuggling to greed.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2017/10/customs-gives-account-of-vehicles.html

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What's so special about ftc??


This is a scam.
They didn't even sell up to 200 cars on their useless auction site.

They post expensive cars all over the news paper and online platforms that are seized everyday.
Have you ever asked your self where they keep does expensive cars which they show us they seized, E.g Land cruiser Prado, Mercedes s class and Lexus Lx and Gx. Gle Coupe, Go wagon.
E.t.c
Well they sell it to themselves or the owner uses connection to get the cars back.

If you go to their auction site you'd find only Golf 3 , Volkswagen jetta, old sienna and all other sort of dead cars.
They keep the good ones and flood their website with Nigerian used scraps used for smuggling rice.

These guy's are scammers.

If you think the Nigerian government will let their citizens benefit from them in any way. You just played your self.

Readonee35L:

My oga, it amazes you.

More serious than smuggling is severe underpayment. Most are carrying wrong papers around thinking their vehicle is covered, until they check and reality beckons

sheffyUTD:


My oga, it amazes you.

More serious than smuggling is severe underpayment. Most are carrying wrong papers around thinking their vehicle is covered, until they check and reality beckons

But most of this cars are cotonou vehicles...
People smuggle in cars everyday.
Especially new model cars with expensive duty.

Readonee35L:

But most of this cars are cotonou vehicles...
People smuggle in cars everyday.
Especially new model cars with expensive duty.

Yes, the ones they want the public to know they are still working. Seizures occur and DN raised daily on already cleared vehicle from seaports

I don't know how many officers are in the Nigeria custom, but if they can spare 1500 men to look through the Nigerian government finance they will find 10 times of the N11bn naira in a year it took 4000 vehicle smugglers to do a quarter of of the damage the ikoyi towers money did to Nigeria and 1/8 of the damage Ibori did to Delta statej

Its ok

Person no go know when them go auction those seized cars

Check my signature for ongoing promo of our full capacity powerbank

it is well

Na una sabi

My car no dey among

Kudos to Ahmed Ali.

The Nigerian Customs system encourages smuggling.

There is no platform in pace for a prospective car buyer to verify and get immediate response whether duty was paid for the car or not.

Story

Everybody is trying so much to impress Nigerians under buhari regime.

We are wise already.

Bùllshit!!!

Hmm

Hhg

Na only G-Wagon I dey see o

Where are the cars parked? Can they show us where they are? What do they intend doing to them?

And the borders in the north is as porous as a fishing net

Haha customs that went through the effort of seizing the car should come and submit the good ones to you atleast they left the crumbs for us to buy how about others CG that ate both the bread and the crumbs

Readonee35L:
This is a scam.
They didn't even sell up to 200 cars on their auction.

Have you ever asked your self about where they keep does expensive cars which they show us they seized, E.g Land cruiser Prado, Mercedes s class and Lexus Lx and Gx.
E.t.c
Well they sell it to themselves or the owner uses connection to get the cars back.

If you go to their auction site you'd find only Golf 3 , Volkswagen jetta, old sienna and all other sort of dead cars.
They keep the good ones and flood their website with Nigerian used scraps used for smuggling rice.

These guy's are scammers.

If you think the Nigerian government will let their citizens benefit from them in any way. You just played your self

the man must have step on so many toe's

Readonee35L:
What's so special about ftc??


This is a scam.
They didn't even sell up to 200 cars on their useless auction site.

They post expensive cars all over the news paper and online platforms that are seized everyday.
Have you ever asked your self where they keep does expensive cars which they show us they seized, E.g Land cruiser Prado, Mercedes s class and Lexus Lx and Gx. Gle Coupe, Go wagon.
E.t.c
Well they sell it to themselves or the owner uses connection to get the cars back.

If you go to their auction site you'd find only Golf 3 , Volkswagen jetta, old sienna and all other sort of dead cars.
They keep the good ones and flood their website with Nigerian used scraps used for smuggling rice.

These guy's are scammers.

If you think the Nigerian government will let their citizens benefit from them in any way. You just played your self.

All the looted funds recovered by magu and his boys e.t.c where are they?.

Of course all cases die down withing 2weeks and everything goes back to normal.
We forget it ever happened

Good morning Boss,such things happened under gej not under buhari and Ali.

THEY SELL THEM OFF LATER.??

And the useless senator are looking for his uniform.



God bless Ali
God bless PMB
God bless Nigeria

Am account of their revenue would have been more like it

Lol

Help move to front page to save lives https://www.nairaland.com/4100628/taraba-governor-please-pay-gratuity

Mr Hameed Ali, really, it was not the uniform that you needed to do the customs job but wisdom and intelligence. Weldon.

if people don't have reasonable things to comment about plz kip mum God bless NCS God bless Ali God bless Nigeria

To be a custom boss is tantamount to JACKPOT.

18 SUVs, 10 bullet proof cars.

Where are the 3,600 cars parked biko nu ?