over 50% of customs are also smuggler and bribe takers

If 98% importers are smuggling, we need to revisit the law that makes their commodities illegal. If the weight of the law is disproportionately felt by a particular group it should be revisited.

Ali if 91% of Nigerian importers are still smugglers then my rating on your performance is too low.

Ibo importers of course.

99%of custom officers aid and abet smuggling.

BigIyanga:
GMB and his gang are saints while 97% of Nigerians are criminals.

“My people are useless,
My people are senseless
My people are indisciplined”
Fela 1914

na which kine life be that ooo

BigIyanga:
GMB and his gang are saints while 97% of Nigerians are criminals.

“My people are useless,
My people are senseless
My people are indisciplined”
Fela 1914

"Abacha is innocent but Nigerians are guilty", according to Buhari and friends.

AleAirHub:
This is what you get when you handle over key position to those who suppose to be a village wine trapper......

If 91% of things imported into Nigeria are smuggle then we should have been finish by because 89% of those goods will be fake items....

Rubbish [s][/s]

Try to read and understand naa, he said 91% importers and not goods.

Customs and their oga should shot up their dirty mouth....what is their job in the bother when 91% of the importers

are smuggling ammunitions and other illegal or dangerous goods into the country...you people are worse smugglers

python1:
And 98% of that 91% are all I....

Eboes are criminals

Especially libyan cows

and 90% of Nigerian importers are Igbos....so therefore can we conclude that..........

RAM..

AustineE1:
....imagine CG of customs Ahmed Ali celebrating there inefficiency to man the nations border.
More like the smugglers bribe the men at the border and the Egunje is shared with the 'Oga at the top',thereafter they now start tracking the goods which must have been sold to the ordinary business man and he bears the brunt.
Why the real smugglers continues with business as usual. Nigeria i salute thee.

Mumu man wey no jasi. 99.9% of customs staff are the criminal accomplices of smugglers.

dabeto:
Abuja – Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd), Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), said 91 percent of importers in the country are smugglers.

Ali, who made the disclosure on Thursday, in Abuja, at the public presentation of a book, ‘Appraisal of the Crime of Smuggling In Nigeria’, authored by an Assistant Comptroller of the Service, Musa Omale, said the 91 percent of importers did not comply with the stipulated rules governing goods importation.

He directed all Customs Area Commands to apply more stringent measures to track down the smugglers and paralyse their activities permanently.

The CG, who urged Customs personnel to carry out this mandate to the letter, advised that it was the statutory duty of the NCS to search and confiscate all smuggled items into the country, to save the economy.

He noted that smuggling had remained a major challenge to Customs since he assumed the leadership of the organisation.

According to him, the organisation had lost five officers in only this year in the process of carrying out its mandate of stopping smuggling.

The Customs boss said Section 147 of the constitution gave officers the right to follow suspected smugglers even into their homes in the course of carrying out their mandate.

He said the activities of smugglers had become very worrisome, and that the service could not fold its arms and watch helplessly while smugglers operated to the detriment of the Nigerian people.

Ali warned that Nigeria would never make progress under the mindset that the laws of the land were meant to be circumvented without considering the harm being done to the economy.

The CG said he would continue to provide protective measures to personnel and equip them with relevant weapons to clamp down on the economic saboteurs.

The Customs boss also disclosed plans to flag off the Customs Command and Staff College where mostly retired officers would be invited to come on a regular basis to give back knowledge to the younger ones.

He described the book as apt and timely, noting that it addressed, to a large extent, the dangers of smuggling.

“This book is apt because it is timely; it is timely in the sense that it has captured everything about smuggling, the ills of smuggling, the laws governing our own mandate and the laws governing smuggling.

“So, it is a must-read for the members of the public and it is going to help us in enlightening the general public to understand really the implication of smuggling.

“We have come to understand that Nigerians, especially those living in the border community, do not even understand that smuggling is a crime.

“And this book brought out those facts and put them on the table. So it is my belief that this book is a bestseller.

“I enjoin people to read it because that will give them the perspective of what smuggling is, and the ills of smuggling, and need to stop smuggling,” he said.

In his remark, Omale Musa, the author of the book, noted that the book, among other things, presented in the simplest form the basic provisions in the Customs Establishment Act in order to encourage smugglers to desist from the act.

He said he was motivated by the level of damage smuggling had done to the economy and the country at large having been a Customs officer for 26 years.

“So, I decided to take a course of study, a PhD programme in the university, and my thesis was the legal framework for combating smuggling.

“After my course, I felt I should not throw that effort to the dustbin; I can improve upon it as a Customs officer in view of the dangers involved in smuggling.”

“So I decided to work on my thesis and develop it into an appraisal of the crime of smuggling.

“So that was the basic motivation why I decided to put this book together,” he said.

The book reviewer, Prof Allwell Muzan, carefully dissected the book, chapter by chapter, and concluded that smuggling was a promoter of all forms of social vices, including money laundering, armed robbery, among others.

https://independent.ng/91-nigerian-importers-smugglers-customs

That's because of the Zootropolis.

sarrki:
One of the finest and sincere hands in this administration

Unemployment has caused a lotta bad things in Nigeria.

People who see themselves bigger than law trying to ensure others obey the law. Kolework. These people should learn to lead by example. Appear before a legitimately constituted house, you refused but want others to obey the law. Uhmm!

Please let there be a factual prove.
Name Names..
Naija go better

Shatap u are d most corrupt Custom CG in d history of d nation.

From this statistics, it simply means that this country is really sick. It also simply shows that the problem crippling this country, to a higher percentage, stems from our unintelligent leaders, who will keep trying to correct multitude of problems with a single rigid method. So, what will happen to our economy if the '91percenters' should suddenly be thrown out of business? How great will the reverberation be!
In fact, why is it that almost every importer is a smuggler! Have the said Customs also looked at their policies, instead of trying to 'poorpulate' this country. With this high numbers, it simply means that the Customs are to blame- they are now masqurades that put fear into the hearts of the importers! They should start re-amending most of their policies

Imagine kettle telling pot he is black

[quote author=raker300 post=62903048]if they come for you now, una go begin cry.

Your people have been begging up and down on nairaland to stop the onslaught on them.

We had a field day bashing your people...I saw many of you crying here.

Make sure say u no run when they come this time [/quote]Trash, did he mention names. Oh, na person dem beat body dey pain. He never mentioned name but you have already taken it. Shame on you. Who and who beg, oh, because he told you people to come out in real life and stop standing behind keyboard, you think he wanted it to stop. Your people can be mumu too much.

They chose smuggling because of these three reasons;

1. The corruption at the ports is massive. Why would anyone choose to give all his or her profits to the crooked port officers as bribe? You will follow all the rules and still forced to give out huge bribes! It makes absolutely no sense!

2. The fees are too much.

3. Massive thefts occur at the ports! Recently I sent home two busses filled with expensive stuffs, but I found them empty at the ports!

So sane people smuggle nowadays. You spend less, bride few border agents and your goods arrive untouched. That's it.

sarrki:
One of the finest and sincere hands in this administration

Holy Ghost Thunder...

Customs are the ones aiding smugglers. They drive smuggled cars. Bunch of thieves catching thieves

This idiot people, they are the most corrupt and brutal organisation in nigeria . They will just manufacture one duty or the other from thin air and make it compulsory for every one to pay. Since buhari entered this people are ending people's business career. My only joy is that it's affecting some people that was shouting sai baba

How will you tell someone to pay 40% duty?. How much profit will the person make? This is why people are mixing original and fake in one container to make profit and those that have church mind are gradually going out of business

And 30% of the smuggled imported goods goes to your family...