 The Nigerian Custom Service has accused ministries, departments and agencies of government as well as the Nigerian elite of Aydin and Abedin smuggling through patronizing smuggled vehicles. The Assistant Comptroller General of Customs in Charge of Modernization, Saidu Galadima, said this at a meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on Customs in Abuja. And here's the report. It was supposed to be an interactive session between the Committee and Customs on ways to purify solution to the cumbersome clearance and transfer process of containers from mother ports or other terminals including dry ports across the country. After more deliberations, both parties agreed that the cumbersome clearance processes patricled down from 18 levels to just 3. This was after the Customs confirmed just 6 levels to the Committee. The Assistant Comptroller General of the Customs Service quickly pointed accusing fingers on the MDAs for encouraging smuggling in the country. Nigerian Custom Service need your support in this regard. Unfortunately today, the big men in Nigeria didn't say National Assembly members. All their escort vehicles, helots and smuggled vehicles. MDAs, Ministry and Departmentals of Government, of Government today, they patronize smuggled helots. And that's why if you go to our system, the number of helots in portation has dropped when you find them hundreds in town. Chairman of the Committee, Honourable Leke Adedjide, at this point appealed to the Customs to offer a three-month window for the voters to pay duties on vehicles smuggled into the country. He says these move could generate about one trillion there for the federal government. Now that we need more revenue, it will give maybe three-month grace for everybody to come and pay duties. Whoever does not pay, it will go to jail. Abedjide urged the Customs to improve their checks to stop such development. He said the House was working on the amendment to the Customs Exercise Management Act to enable the agency to work more effectively. Customs need to take this 4% of the 4B collation. When they get this done, the Customs will be okay. Most of these complaints will not be there. But as it is now, they are incapacitated. I know it because I know the system, and I have seen what they are getting is barely to pay their salaries. So when the ad comes, we sit down on it and look at it and see how we can help them. Federal lawmakers urged the Customs to embrace a one-stop shop mode of clearance, especially as Customs activities are now automated as claimed by them. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.