Hameed Ali, comptroller-general
of the Nigeria Customs Service, has directed that owners of vehicles seized or
detained will pay the complete duty with 25% penalty levy.
In a circular released by AOB
Fatade, assistant comptroller-general, all operations units were mandated to
report action on this to the headquarter on a weekly basis.
“The Comptroller-General of
Customs has directed that henceforth, all vehicles detained or subject to
detention should be allowed to pay the correct and complete Customs duty with
the 25% penalty levy.
“Furthermore, you are directed to
note that all vehicles seized and taken into Customs custody (condemned by a
competent court of jurisdiction in accordance with the provision of Section 167
of CEMA Cap C45 LFN 2004)shall not enjoy the above privilege consented in
paragraph 1.
“Consequently, it shall attract
the penalty prescribed in Section 167 referred thereto.”
Section 167 of the Customs and
Excise Management act states that: “Any officer or police officer, or any other
person authorised in that behalf by the Board, may at any time seize or detain
anything liable to forfeiture under the customs and excise laws or which such
officer, police officer or other person has reasonable grounds to believe are
liable to forfeiture thereunder.
“Anything seized or detained
under the customs and excise laws shall forthwith be delivered into the care of
the Board and, subject to the provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act,
shall, pending the determination as to its forfeiture or disposal, be dealt
with, and, if condemned or deemed to have been condemned as forfeited, shall be
disposed of, in such manner as the Board may direct.”
Operatives of service recently
carried out an operation on a five-star hotel in Abuja and seized four
vehicles.
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