Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), says it will collaborate with Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) and Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA) to accelerate up Nigeria’s economic growth.
The Acting Controller-General of NCS, Mr Wale Adeniyi made the pledge when NEPZA’s Managing Director, Prof. Adesoji Adesugba and his counterpart from OGFZA, Senator Tijani Kaura visited him on Friday.
Adeniyi, while commending efforts of personnel, promised the Service readiness to partner with both agencies for the good of the country.
According to him, NCS is ever committed to collaborate with necessary Government’s Agencies in the task of ensuring national economic development.
“That is in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu led administration.
“So, I will like to express my commitment that we will forge this collaboration, we will work closer and we will get collaborations towards productive results for our economy,” he said.
Earlier, the Managing Director of NEPZA, highlighted the roles of Free Trade Zones in job creation, poverty reduction and national economic development.
Adesugba said for NEPZA and OGFZA to achieve their mandates as agencies saddled with the responsibility of developing the sector, there was the need for effective collaboration with the NIS.
He recalled the recent meeting of stakeholders in the sector in Abuja where they brainstormed on how to reposition the sector for optimal performance.
He said it was resolved that they meet with the NCS on the meeting’s outcome to further seek the way forward in the industry.
“We are very happy that we are going back to our various authorities and we are taking with us the fact that we will be working together.
