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Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by lilcashking(m): 9:20am On Jun 07, 2015
In Kano state, textile traders, textile workers and the general public are on tenterhooks as the Nigeria Custom Service (NCS) awaits federal government’s directive on allegedly smuggled textile materials worth N315bn. Would the materials be burnt?
There is palpable tension in Kantin Kwari market, the acclaimed largest textile market in West Africa, following the seizure, by men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), of N315 billion worth of textile materials allegedly smuggled into the country by Chinese nationals. The allegation is rife in Kano that Chinese smugglers of such materials connive with local traders to perpetrate the act.
Customs officials commenced, on 8 May this year, confiscation of textile materials considered to have been smuggled into the country. During the exercise which lasted three weeks, the NCS officials sealed a total of 75 warehouses stocked with textile materials estimated at N315bn, while some Chinese nationals were arrested. Since the commencement of the raid, Customs officials have been laying siege to warehouses in the state, a development that has put owners of the warehouses on the run.

Speaking during his visit to Kano penultimate Tuesday, Comptroller-General of the NCS, Mr Abdullahi Dikko Inde said the sealed warehouses contained contraband textile materials smuggled in from China.

“I initiated the raid of the warehouses from my office in Abuja, based on information, in order to salvage our economy. Goods in one warehouse there alone are worth N4.2bn, and if you multiply that by 75, you will get the worth of the seizure we have made.

“If you recall, during the Obasanjo regime, over 200 trailers loaded with contraband were burnt here in Kano and over 400 others were burnt in Lagos state. I will report this situation to the federal government for them to take a decision on it. We are doing our best and they (smugglers) are doing their worst. Even if all 170 million Nigerians are deployed to our borders, they cannot stop smuggling,” he added.

But the traders have deflated the claim of the Customs boss, saying the textile materials were imported through routes NCS officials were aware of. In an interview, the secretary of the Kano State Traders’ Union (KSTU), Alhaji Aliyu Lamin Gwale maintained that importers of the seized textile materials paid all the necessary duties on them.
“It was the closure of the textile factories in Nigeria that pushed us to China and we have been doing this for over 15 years. We have been bringing the textile materials through the only and known person that the Customs are aware of.

“We are surprised that suddenly they went after our warehouses and have sealed a total of 75 so far. This has crippled businesses in Kano and our people have been exposed to untold hardship,” Alhaji Gwale said.

The Chairman of the Kanti Kwari Traders Association, Alhaji Liti Kulkul declared that contrary to the allegation being bandied about, a huge chunk of the seized items belongs to members of his association and not Chinese traders.

“We paid appropriate taxes on the seized goods. We paid 5 per cent on each N20m goods as tax through our agent. But we are not arguing with the government. We are ready to join hands with the government to sanitise the textile business in Nigeria. Now they are demanding that we should pay N5bn on every billion naira worth of textile as penalty. This is on the high side,” Alh Kulkul pleaded.

The National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), the umbrella body of textile workers in the country, has, however, hailed the efforts of the NCS and called for the burning of the seized textiles.


“We are impressed by the recent discovery of 75 illegal warehouses in Kano where contraband textile materials worth about N319.9bn were stored. We commend the Customs for the reported seizure of the smuggled textile materials. We hope that this development is not another passing fad and is in line with the mood of the country for change. An enduring commitment of the Customs to do its job is to protect local producers and help the country ensure sustainable jobs,” the workers said in a statement by their General Secretary, Comrade Issa Aremu.

According to Comrade Aremu, the major threat to the realization of the great potential of Nigeria in textile production is the high influx of counterfeit and smuggled goods. “Over 90 per cent of Nigeria’s huge market size is dominated by smuggled and counterfeit goods, killing local companies in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, Guzau, Aba and Port Harcourt, and millions of direct and indirect associated local jobs.
“Remarkably, too, smuggling denies the government the much-needed revenue in unpaid custom duties. According to the Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Diko Abdullahi, the duty value of the goods in one out of the uncovered 75 warehouses in Kano is N4.2bn. When we add the value duties of all the 75 warehouses, one will appreciate the enormous loss of revenue to the government,” Aremu said.

The workers called for the burning of the seized textile materials. In their words, “all the above efforts will end in vain unless the seized contraband textile materials are burnt in public like seized drugs otherwise they would find ways to the market, thereby defeating the ongoing efforts to curtail smuggling”.

Aremu called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reconstitute the Presidential Task Force on Destruction of Seized Textile Materials once chaired by the current governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir Ahmed el-Rufai.

He advised, “The task force should include all critical stakeholders, including labour. This is necessary in order to protect and strengthen our domestic textile industries and save Nigerians’ jobs. If we combine the fight against smuggling with uninterrupted supply of electricity, long-term cheap funds through the bank of Industry and government patronage of locally produced textiles (school uniforms, police and Customs uniforms), there is no doubt that textile industry in the fullest of time will come back.”

The traders’ insistence that they resorted to importing textile materials in view of the closure of textile factories in the country is drawing flaks from textile workers, who lashed back that the traders contributed in the first place to the misfortune that befell the textile factories through what they alleged was, and remains, their illegal and unbridled smuggling of textile materials into the country.

Will the Obasanjo regime treatment be revisited on the whopping N315bn worth of textile materials in the Customs’ grip? Both the affected traders in Kano state and textile workers, through their NUTGTWN, are tension-soaked on the outcome, each party hung on its interest.


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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by loomer: 9:25am On Jun 07, 2015
Make dem burn na how e take concern us?

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Beremx(f): 9:28am On Jun 07, 2015
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by kettykings: 9:28am On Jun 07, 2015
Auction it and not burn it fools

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by banito1(m): 9:30am On Jun 07, 2015
That's a lot of money

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by slimfit1(m): 9:35am On Jun 07, 2015
Burn it down otherwise it will affect the naira burn it when we start exporting things to China then we can start to consider it for now no.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by kingofdemons: 9:36am On Jun 07, 2015
Beremx:
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by otokx(m): 9:44am On Jun 07, 2015
Beremx:
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?

They should take them to the camps of internally displaced people up north and share it accordingly.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Emphany: 9:46am On Jun 07, 2015
If nigerian customs say burn/confisicate,it simply means "share it among ourselves". The best fin is to donate it to less previlaged or aution it as said,dats too much money to throw away. I'm very sure the customs and their families are waiting to here BURN... Up nija.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Beremx(f): 9:47am On Jun 07, 2015
otokx:


They should take them to the camps of internally displaced people up north and share it accordingly.
exactly! It doesn't make sense burning the textile materials.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Nobody: 9:52am On Jun 07, 2015
otokx:


They should take them to the camps of internally displaced people up north and share it accordingly.
I'm with you on this, it should be shared out to IDP

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by cacmatters(m): 9:58am On Jun 07, 2015
Auction it and use the proceeds to develop the textile sector.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Chubhie: 10:11am On Jun 07, 2015
Emphany:
If nigerian customs say burn/confisicate,it simply means "share it among ourselves". The best fin is to donate it to less previlaged or aution it as said,dats too much money to throw away. I'm very sure the customs and their families are waiting to here BURN... Up nija.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by stinggy(m): 10:19am On Jun 07, 2015
Beremx:
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Onyejiuwaokoh: 10:25am On Jun 07, 2015
What kills our indigenous companies is mismanagement, corruption and heartlessness. Chinese product has been a watchdog over those evil managers of our companies. Just imagine, whenever government bans the importation of those things we produce locally, those companies heartlessly increases the price of their products by 500 percent or more. That is why people will go to China, buy the same product or even better product,pay for the shippings with visas, customs duties and so many other expenses and yet sell cheaper than the ones produced locally. The corruption in our society is too ubiquitous and effective in almost every angles, since we are too wicked to run to our economy to the benefit of every Nigerians, let the Chinese do it for us after all they help the poor ones to afford theirs and look decently like others.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Rumpelstiltskin(m): 10:28am On Jun 07, 2015
otokx:


They should take them to the camps of internally displaced people up north and share it accordingly.
This should be the best thing to do. If they auction the textiles, people who bought them will want to resell thereby saturating the market and defeating the aim for which they were seized initially.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Nobody: 10:38am On Jun 07, 2015
Burning such will cause untold hardship to those involved and affect the climate too....imagine burning over 300billion naira worth of textiles in the open...give them back there stocks NCS.You people that normally auction cars on Facebook nko?

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Marotzke(m): 10:46am On Jun 07, 2015
[quote author=Beremx post=34514924] exactly! It doesn't make sense burning the textile materials.[/quote The idea is to prevent the influx of banned foreign textile into the Nigerian market. Did you notice the street value? Over N300b. How do you donate textiles with a street value larger than the entire yearly budgets of three states? Unless you will also provide a full brigade of tailors to sew those textiles to wearable clothes,90% of those textiles will get back to the market to cause the dislocation that government is avoiding.

Is it that our memory is short? During OBJ's regime, El Rufai was given the onerous task of burning lace worth over N250b. He did it with relish and panache. Is it now that people from the correct part of the country are involved? Apologist starts proffering solutions they didn't offer when their kinsmen were involved. Beremx, Berem, Mz jackbauress Gbankiti ,open your eyes.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by SwitDealz: 11:13am On Jun 07, 2015
Wow, thats a huge loss.
Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by IbokUtoroh(m): 11:19am On Jun 07, 2015
na dis same people dey chant change, but all their dealings r evil.
Almost evry smuggled goods n cocaine pass thru their porous borders, why? Because when a new comptroller of customs or immigration is posted to that region, d emir will want to hv a chat with u, from that chat he will give u rules n regulations on hw to work in his region. U thr not flout those rules unless u want to be posted back to ur village in body bag.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by VickJames(m): 11:22am On Jun 07, 2015
315billion naira is equal to three states allocation!

Seize the gaddamn thing and resell to countries who need it.

The money and some clothes can be used to save the internal displaced persons.

Don't burn it.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Nobody: 11:25am On Jun 07, 2015
Why burn it? when u can sell at cheap and affordable prices and use d moni 4 development.. since it was smuggled, so i believe they are original and not counterfeit or fake.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Nobody: 11:39am On Jun 07, 2015
Government fit sell am cheape cheape. Na the burn burn na Him dey sweet them pass. Oyaooo burna burnu Oya. - Fela Kuti.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Onyejiuwaokoh: 11:40am On Jun 07, 2015
IbokUtoroh:
na dis same people dey chant change, but all their dealings r evil.
Almost evry smuggled goods n cocaine pass thru their porous borders, why? Because when a new comptroller of customs or immigration is posted to that region, d emir will want to hv a chat with u, from that chat he will give u rules n regulations on hw to work in his region. U thr not flout those rules unless u want to be posted back to ur village in body bag.
You should go to Ekiti and join them in mass exodus to Aba and Onitsha to get brain to work.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by ozo13(m): 11:55am On Jun 07, 2015
Beremx:
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?
I think d best thing to do is to calculate d import duty on dos materials and if dr owners r ready to pay d dues, fine.

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by DjHypno(m): 12:23pm On Jun 07, 2015
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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by imsuboi(m): 12:24pm On Jun 07, 2015
Where's that brainless dullard?

Still high on kunu?

undecided

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Aitee1: 12:25pm On Jun 07, 2015
See their mouth like waiting for order to burn it undecided undecided


Corruption eating deep in NCS! All they want to do is share it among themselves and get enriched, that's why a custom officer with less than 100k salary is living above his means cos of much wuru wuru at the boarder, thieves every where angry

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by GANJAFARMER: 12:25pm On Jun 07, 2015
Beremx:
Instead of burning the textile materials,why not donate it to the less priviledged?
Typical janjawiid mentality where everything should be free , and what happens to the growing textile industry when you can give out textiles worth billions to the needy?....smh

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Nobody: 12:26pm On Jun 07, 2015
#315B ? Burn? thats not a good idea naw

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Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Nicepoker(m): 12:26pm On Jun 07, 2015
.hope they Won't share it among themselves.
Re: Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning by Isiterere(m): 12:26pm On Jun 07, 2015
You're kidding right? over 300 billions worth of goods?

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