The Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Zone A, Command, Lagos, has revealed that the federal government is presently losing billions of naira to fraudulent shipping companies involved in the midstream discharge of cargoes.
The NCS alleged that some dubious shipping companies were involved in the mass discharge of cargoes midstream in order to avoid paying duties to government.
Though it did not name the shipping companies involved in the sharp practice, it however solicited the assistance of naval authorities to check the activities of those allegedly involved in the practice.
The Zonal Coordinator, Zone ‘A’ of the NCS, Assistant Comptroller-General Eporwei Edike, who made this disclosure when he paid a courtesy call on the Flag Officer Commanding Western Naval Command, Rear Admiral Raphael Osodun, urged the Nigerian Navy to assist the Customs in stopping midstream discharge of cargoes.
He said: “We have to look at other sister agencies to assist us to succeed in our duties.”
