Adeniyi who disclosed this while addressing journalists at
Zone A Ikeja, admitted that the command is currently filled beyond its
capacity.
He added that the new location would also accommodate the
training college and the warehouse.
Adeniyi said that the groundbreaking ceremony of the project
would be held in a few days’ time.
He said, “We already have a plan to relocate the entire
operations of the FOU A, we are going to a new location somewhere outside
Lagos. We have acquired the place, any moment from now we are going to do the
groundbreaking so that the project can start. It is going to be a-one stop
stuff; it is not just going to be only the FOU A that is going to be there, our
training college will also be there. We are going to have a number of Customs
facilities there. We already see that there is no more space here and when we
leave we are going to make good use of this place in such a way that we will no
longer be creating nuisance which all these lorries and trucks would be
creating to the environment.”
Adeniyi said contractors had moved to the site.
He said, “I can say that the project has started and we are
making every effort to ensure that the current issues with the exchange rate
would not create problems for us. The contract has been awarded and the
contractors have moved to site, they have taken the first move to establish
their presence and I want to believe that in the next few days, we are going to
officially hand over this sight to the contractors. We are anticipating that
within 30 months or there we should be able to move the entire operations out
of here to the new sight.”
The Customs boss however said that the NCS would be engaging
with the Customs Administration of Benin Republic for a synergy on how to
ensure ease of doing business.
“In two weeks, the Customs administration will be coming to
Abuja for us to continue where we started in Benin Republic and get a wide
range of agreement on what our next strategy would be,” he concluded.