The Comptroller-General of Customs,
retired Col. Hameed Ali, on Tuesday announced a code number for
efficient and effective vehicle duty clearance verification.
Ali disclosed this at a media stakeholders meeting in Abuja.
Ali said that the essence of the meeting
was to have a roundtable with stakeholders to come up with solution to
avoid causing hardship to Nigerians in regards to duty payment on old
vehicles and verification.
He said that customs had taken further
step to ensure that Nigerians, who wanted to verify the authenticity of
their customs duty clearance, could do so at the comfort of their homes
with the use of their mobile phones.
“For effective and easy customs duty
clearance verification, you can dial or send SMS to these numbers
094621597 with your vehicle C-number, the year you paid the duty and the
port or location where the vehicle came through into the country.
“Immediately all that information is
given, just in five minutes you will get a response whether your vehicle
duty clearance is genuine or not,” Ali said.
He said the essence of the numbers was
to ensure stress free verification, to motor dealers and innocent
Nigerian vehicle owners.
According to him, for easy traffic flow,
the last number which is 7 in the digits 094621597 can be either
changed to 8 or 9, to get response faster with different customs
personnel on duty at every point in time.
Ali said that Nigerians misunderstood
customs intention regarding duty payment on old vehicles, adding that
the excise was actually meant for motor dealers.
He added that customs later decided to
give innocent private vehicle owners, who after verification, might find
out that their vehicles had no genuine duty clearance to take advantage
of the 60 per cent rebate.
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