Customs boosts anti-smuggling drive, improves border security, revenue

…Elevates 74 officers successful Oyo/Osun command

By Adeola Badru

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has decorated 74 recently promoted officers wrong the Oyo/Osun Area Command, arsenic the work intensified its warfare against smuggling and expanded commercialized facilitation crossed the Southwest region.

The promotion, which is simply a strategical move, is aimed astatine reinforcing Nigeria’s borderline information and enhancing gross procreation efforts.

The recently promoted officers, drawn from assorted cadres, were formally decorated yesterday during a ceremonial astatine the bid office successful Ibadan.

Addressing the officers, Customs Area Controller for Oyo/Osun, Comptroller Gambo Iyere Aliyu, described the promotions arsenic some a reward and a responsibility, noting that the elevation of officers is captious to strengthening the command’s operational readiness.

The development, helium said, came astatine a clip erstwhile the federation is doubling down connected efforts to unafraid its borders, artifact gross leakages, and amended the easiness of doing business.

He said, “These promotions are not conscionable ceremonial; they are strategic. They equip this Command with a stronger, much accountable workforce to transportation retired the Service’s halfway mandate of gross generation, commercialized facilitation, and the suppression of smuggling.

“You indispensable warrant your caller ranks by showing accrued discipline, commitment, and professionalism successful your duties.”

He stressed that the Oyo/Osun Command remained a important corridor for customs enforcement and economical activity, fixed its proximity to cardinal inter-state routes and borderline networks.

The Area Controller besides expressed the request for officers to prioritise capableness gathering and accommodate to the evolving challenges of customs administration.

“The terrain we run successful is perpetually changing. Officers indispensable continuously amended their capableness to enactment up of smuggling syndicates and to efficaciously show commercialized activities,” helium added.

According to him, the Oyo/Osun Command played a important relation successful supporting Nigeria’s economical stability, with its operations straight impacting the government’s non-oil gross targets.

He said the deployment of the recently promoted officers is expected to heighten monitoring, enforcement, and compliance successful cardinal commercialized areas nether the command’s jurisdiction.

Speaking with journalists aft the ceremony, the Public Relations Officer, ASC I Abdulmalik Abiodun Akintola, noted that the caller promotions are portion of broader organization reforms championed by the Comptroller-General of Customs.

“This promotion workout is simply a reflection of merit, hard work, and the Service’s committedness to vocation progression. It besides sends a wide connection that the NCS is strengthening its capableness to conscionable nationalist expectations,” Akintola said.

The lawsuit was attended by elder officers, friends, and household members of the recently decorated officers, who gathered to observe what galore described arsenic a milestone successful their careers.

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