Relationship with Nigeria Customs Service, is it cordial?
You can understand that the customs is an arm of government in the area of revenue collection. It is the right of customs to collect revenue. We have a good working relationship with customs, they license us and we work together, we prepare the documents and the customs verify our documents. But I want to tell you something, every tax collector even in the Bible has always been an enemy of the people in the course of trying to do his official duty. Some of us in this part of the world, we don’t like to pay our tax. We still have over zealous customs officers who believe because of tax they want to over do things. The present management of customs is doing wonderfully well. I want to tell you that the innovations and ideas it has put in place are such that have reduced areas of revenue leakage and corruption in the ports. How much has the concessioning of the ports eased operations? Let me tell you this, you know the government of the day thinks and believes that port concessioning will
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