MARITIME: Customs’ Manual Examination Of Cargoes Frustrates Trade Facilitation, Ease Of Doing Business

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Like other sectors in the Nigerian economy, the nation’s seaports have become a cesspool of corruption, a place held captive by an agency established to

Specifically, he had said, “New cargo scanners to arrive in Nigeria next year. The new scanners would arrive the ports by the first quarter of 2018, to make cargo examination easier, faster & surer.”Responding to stakeholders’ demand for the audit of N9.2 billion scanners at the ports, the CGC had noted that, “After examining the scanners, only two can be immediately repaired and put to use, but the others will be repaired over time.

Maritime stakeholders have rued the absence of mobile and fixed scanners at the ports, saying they are essential equipment for international businesses as it helps in facilitating ease of doing business. Maritime expert and a member, Task Force to Reform Customs in 2010, Lucky Amiwero, blames the collapse of scanners at the nation’s ports on the doorsteps of the NCS and the Ministry of Finance .

While the NCS has resorted to crude, manual cargo inspection otherwise called 100 per cent physical examination, there have been times that dangerous goods like arms, ammunition and prohibited drugs exited the ports undetected, This would not have been were the scanners available. Amiwero also share the view of the STOAN boss, saying that physical examination is not done anywhere in the world.

 

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