Q1: PTML Customs Command Collects N45.4bn

By UDO ONYEKA

The Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited PTML Command of Nigeria Customs Service has made a total collection of N45,403,648,698 from January to March 2020.

This was made known in a statement issued by the Commands Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Yakubu

Accordingly the statement attributed the increased collection to volume of transactions and revenue generation strategies put in place by the Customs Area Controller of the command, Comptroller Festus Okun

Yakubu, an Assistant Superintendent of Customs , explained further in the statement that the first quarter collection is 24 percent higher than the N36,728,799,903 collected in the first quarter of 2019 with a difference of N8,674,848,966.08.

According to the statement, Comptroller Okun charged officers of the command to continually facilitate trade without compromising government revenue and national security.

“Okun also assured that PTML will remain a model port for seamless clearance of automobile cargoes being one of the country’s major Roll -on Roll-off (RoRo) port.”

He assured importers and licenced customs agents of robust customs community relations, regular interactions and application of effective trade dispute resolution mechanism at all times.

While thanking the officers for their diligence and commitment to duty in realisation of the increase in collection, Okun added that efforts be intensified to detect and plug any area of revenue leakage