NAHCO Hails Customs over Provision of Enabling Environment

Chairman of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc, (NAHCo Aviance), Mallam Suleiman Yahyah, has commended the Customs Area Commander (CAC) at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos Command, Mr. Folorunso Adegoke, for the command’s efforts at providing the enabling environment for increase in cargo revenues.
Yahyah, who gave the commendation during a courtesy visit to the CAC, in the latter’s office, said the CAC has been a blessing to the command and to the ground handling company.
He said: “The kind of sentiment being expressed by everyone as it concerns you is a pointer to the fact that you are a game changer, and we are proud of you. Your team has changed the game plan. This will help revenue to increase and the customer satisfaction will be achieved”.
The NAHCo boss stated further that for two months the company had recorded a zero theft level, a feat he attributed the success to the ongoing collaboration between all the parties concerned, especially employees of NAHCo and the Nigeria Customs Service (NIS) at the airport command.
Yahyah stated that in the past two months, there had been no reported case of theft, attributing it to measures put in place by NAHCo and the Customs.
He advised the Adegoke to regularly sit down with his team to align them with the overall objective of the measures put in place. He said this would reduce tension in the system.
On his part, the Custom boss said the reduction in the incidence of theft arose from the fact that appropriate capturing is being carried out by Customs officials and that this has greatly helped.
“We have a system that captures everything and everything is being recorded accordingly,” Adegoke said.
He further explained that what the Customs does now is to capture the details of the person(s) to whom consignments are delivered, adding that if after the consignment had been delivered, it was discovered that other goods were concealed under the delivered cargo, the Customs goes after the consignee.
He said that anybody who pays or is willing to pay the required fees had no issues with Customs, adding that a lot of importers are yet to get used to the fact that the game had changed.
In his words: “Once a particular trader is compliant, he has no issues with us. Once there is compliance, there won’t be any issue; it is non- compliance that can alter the peace. Kindly report anyone with issues”.