NCS, NESREA To Stop Importation Of E-Wastes

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said it would collaborate with the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) to stop importation of non-functional used electronics. Reacting to the two containers discovered with e-wastes by NESREA on board a vessel, MV Marivia Monrovia, the Public Relations Officer of Tin-Can Island Port, Mr Chris Osunkwo, said,

“Customs will not hide any fraudulent importer”. “the beauty lies in cooperation; if we had not worked together, we would not have discovered the e-wastes.

He said that the NCS could not fight fraudulent importers alone, adding that all agencies at the ports must work together to achieve the same goal.

Osunkwo said that the assessment of the two containers by the NCS was not different from that of NESREA, which confirmed that the containers had e-wastes.

He said that as soon as nesrea officially informed the ncs, the containers would be repatriated to the UK. Although used electronics are allowed into the country, the non-functional used ones are described as e-wastes. the non-functional used electronics dumped indiscriminately are found to be hazardous to citizens.