The Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS), may have set aside the $3.2 billion Customs Modernisation Project, otherwise known as e-Customs, over lingering litigation issues, as the Service has announced a partnership with the World Customs Service (WCO) to deploy Geospatial Intelligence at the nation’s borders.
Addressing newsmen in Lagos yesterday, the acting Customs Comptroller-General, Adewale Bashir Adeniyi, said that due to the lingering court cases over the $3.2 billion e-Customs project, he has not been talking much about the project since he took over the reins of leadership of the Service.
According to the acting Customs CG, “Currently, we are at a stage where the matter is in court; and that is why I have not been talking so much about the $3.2 billion Customs Modernisation project. However, beyond the modernisation project, there are a number of things that we can do on our own”.
Recall that in 2020, the Federal Executive Council approved the concession of the $3.2 billion automation project at the NCS. The project was aimed at generating $176 billion in revenue.
