The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has again given assurance on the issuance of the Pre- Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR) and its effectiveness in the system.
Disclosing this in yesterday, the Customs Area Controller in charge of the nation’s biggest customs command; Mr Charles Edike said that there has been a good record of improvement since it started last year.
According to him, “RAAR is issued even within hours, even before the importer “gets home”.
He said that the teething problems that were associated with Pre-Arrival Assessment Report are gradually coming to an end even as he disclosed that a total of 28,861,000 PAARs have been released in April.
He stressed that the generated N22, 132,876,041.87k between April 1 and 28, 2014.
According to him, the command revenue collection on a daily basis has been impressive; he attributed the improvement to technological advancement and dedication of the officers and men of the command.
Edike informed newsmen that the service is rolling out PAAR smoothly at the moment, pointing out that the teething problems of the PAAR regime is almost a thing of the past.
“Initially, when we were dealing with the 99,000 Form ‘M’ that were not perfected by the service providers alone is enormous task for us and when you add that to the teething problem of PAAR itself, then you will agree with me that, certainly you will understand the kind of challenge the service will be faced with”, he said.
“We are happy that PAAR is coming out beautifully and I must say that we are coming out of the storm gradually and as we speak PAAR is now being transmitted with ease, PAAR is rolling out smoothly and before the importer gets home after processing his form M”, the PAAR will be ready before that same night” Edike stated.
He said that between April 1and 28 this year, the command has issued out 28, 861,000 PAAR as against what all the service providers issued, even as he commended officers of the command for being highly compliant with the latest technological innovation.