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| Customs Installs Electronic Screening Machines At Seme |
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The current physical inspection of goods at
Seme and Owode-Apa border areas with the Republic of Benin will be replaced with
electronic scanning machine very soon, the Customs Area Comptroller in charge of
Seme Command, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko,has said.
Dikko told the News Agency of Nigeria in Badagry, Lagos State, yesterday,
that the expatriates handling the installation of the scanning machines had been
directed to complete the job soon.
He said that the installation of the machine would guarantee faster inspection of goods and reduce the stress his men and officers were presently going through as a result of physical inspection The customs chief said that the command had discarded the analogue system of clearing for ++ASYCUDA++ to ensure a better, faster and more efficient clearing process at the border areas. Dikko, who assumed office only in March, said that he had also checkmated the problem of overloading by trucks, saying that this step had greatly reduced the rate at which trucks overturn their cargoes on Lagos-Seme highway. He said that more officers and men of the command had been deployed to the border areas and the surrounding communities to reinforce surveillance with the aim of warding off the activities of smugglers. As the custodian of the country's entry points, the Area Comptroller said that the command would continue to ensure that unscrupulous persons did not under any guise bring in arms and ammunitions into the country. |
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