Automated overtime cargo: Customs replacing culture of delay, others – Comptroller General

By Bashir Bello

KANO —The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale has said that the instauration of the Automated Overtime Cargo Clearance & Disposal System is transforming the customs operations by replacing the civilization of delay, opacity, and congestion with a civilization of efficiency, transparency, and accountability.

The Custom’s brag made this known during a stakeholders sensitization gathering connected Automated Overtime Cargo Clearance & Disposal System for Zone B and D held in Kano.

Adewale who was represented by the Controller, Post Clearance Audit, Zone B, Comptroller Deborah Adeyemi said the described the inaugural arsenic a turning constituent successful the customs operations.

She nevertheless solicited for the practice of the stakeholders to marque the betterment succeed, not conscionable for Customs, but for the system of Nigeria arsenic a whole.

According to her, “This inaugural marks a turning constituent successful our operations. For years, the challenges of congestion, manual paperwork, bottlenecks, abandoned cargo, and lengthy clearance processes person weighed down commercialized facilitation and slowed economical activity. Today, with the Automated Overtime Cargo Clearance and Disposal System, we are demonstrating that Customs tin beryllium some a facilitator of commercialized and a guarantor of integrity.

“The Nigeria Customs Service is not simply automating a process; we are transforming a culture. The civilization of delay, opacity, and congestion is being replaced with a civilization of efficiency, transparency, and accountability. This is what the CGC means erstwhile helium says that innovation and collaboration are the engines of our progress.

“The caller strategy brings transparency, simplicity, accountability, ratio and information integrity.

“Let america enactment unneurotic to marque this betterment succeed, not conscionable for Customs, but for the system of Nigeria arsenic a whole,” Adeyemi said.

On his part, the In his remarks, the Customs Area Controller, Kano/Jigawa Command, Dalhatu Abubakar, called connected the stakeholders to intensify consciousness instauration and instrumentality the sensitization to the ladder to support them abreast of the caller initiative.

Speaking connected behalf of the stakeholders, the Chairman, Clearing Agents Association, Kano, Hafiz Rilwan, commended the CGC for the inaugural and pledged to enactment its implementation done wider sensitisation.

The stakeholders included consignees, customs broker, terminal relation and customs officers wrong the zone.

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