The Unit Controller, Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ Owerri, Comptroller Kayode Olumisire comes across as brief and straight to the point as possible.
He says the NCS derives greater joy in trade facilitation and making Nigerians embrace legitimate trade through regular sensitization campaign than chasing smugglers around; but insist “we will not think twice seizing imports that runs contrary to the prohibition order”.
In this interview with EGUONO ODJEGBA, he tells the story of how he bridges the seemingly opposite tasks. He says it is not the place of the NCS to ascribe economic or political reasons to the influx of smuggled armoured vehicles.

When this government came in, $1 was the equivalent of N170 in 2015. Now, what is it today? It is N360 to $1. Whether that is a pass mark, it is left for Nigerians to judge

I am challenging an incumbent and also somebody who had had the opportunity of serving at the House of Reps. Let’s look at their scorecards

That you are an incumbent does not make you unbeatable. Did President Buhari not trounce Goodluck Jonathan?

When the two men stormed into Vanguard’s Northern Operations office on 7 Dambta Close in the Central Area of Abuja, that Monday morning, they did so with a sense of urgency.