Rivers
Customs Warns Against Non-Compliance With Practice Rules
The Customs Area Comptroller (CAC), Area 1, Port Harcourt, Chedi Wada, has warned against non-conformity with statutory procedures in the maritime sector.
Wada gave the warning at the One-Day Sensitisation Programme on Satutory Procedure Code, organised at the Command in Port Harcourt, recently.
According to him, to operate effectively in the maritime industry, as a shipper or clearing agent one needed the knowledge to enable him, support a better flow of the system, adding that previous workshops had paid off, hence the need to regularise it.
He further charged the stakeholders not to only learn for themselves, but also to take the knowledge home or their respective offices and train others.
Wada reiterated that consequences abound for defaulters who flout the Customs Procedure Codes (CPC), hence the need to take the seminar seriously.
“The sensitisation workshop is to interact and gather feedback. Previous ones paid off. The idea is to know the dos and don’ts of operations at the ports, as well as consequences for default. So to avoid revenue loss, time wastages and incurring of costs, the sensitisation programme becomes necessary”, he said.
The expectation of the Nigeria Customs Service, he explained was to ensure participants became more informed and knowledgeable in the end.
In his lecture,Chief Superintendent, Customs, B.M.Gambo,who took the participants through the CPC, said it was important that operators in the maritime industry knew the nitergrities of the rules and procedures governing the sector.
Gambo, pointed out the 21st Century Nigeria Customs was involved in revenue generation, national security and trade facilitation.
To achieve this, he said it will depend on the actions of the stakeholders,based on their understanding of the Customs Operational Procedures.
He marked some of the abuses of the CPC to include,false declaration of cargoes, underdevaluation, among others.
These infractions, he stressed, lead to loss of revenue and are punishable by penalties or imprisonment or both in some cases.
At the question and answer session,the participants aired their views on areas of ambiguities and the CAC,the lecturer, Gambo,as well as other officers provided clarifications.
By; King Onunwor
Niger Delta
Tai Agric Sector Gets Emergency Attention …As Chairman Distributes Farm Inputs, Inaugurates Technical Team

The Chairman of Tai Local Government Council of Rivers State, Hon. Matthew Nenu Bari Dike has declared a state of emergency in the agriculture sector of Tai local government.
Speaking while distributing farm implements and other agricultural support packages to the farmers at the council’s headquarters in Saakpenwa, yesterday, Dike challenged farmers to show their farms before requesting for financial assistance.
The council boss stated that as a government, they were committed to putting smiles on the faces of the people and assured that his administration would ensure that every person in the local government is happy.
“As a government we want to assure you that, we will stop at nothing to ensure you all are empowered and living happily”.
According to him, “the gesture is aimed at enhancing food production and security through agriculture, and enjoined all lovers of agriculture in the local government area to identify with the quest to redefine development through agriculture in the local government.
He encouraged everyone to cultivate the passion and return to agriculture, to guarantee self-reliance, maximum food production and security in the area.
His administration, he said, would purchase more yam seedlings in order to get greater production to encourage exportation beyond the shores of Nigeria.
“A boost in yam production will also empower farmers in the Local Government Area”, the elated chairman said.
In a related development, the Chairman has inaugurated a five, member Agricultural Technical Committee for the Local Government Area.
The committee is made up of Pst. Anderson Wariboko, Barr. Paul Newman,, Smith Nyor-Ue, Gladys Jumbo and Dr Keke Rammyson
Also speaking, the Director of Agriculture, Tai Local Government Area, Mr Anderson Wariboko revealed that the event was part of activities to mark the chairman’s 100 days in office.
Wariboko who led the chairman, and other leaders of the council on the distribution of the farm inputs to the farmers, was full of praises for the chairman, Hon. Dike whom he said has the interest of the people at heart.
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