The House of Representatives has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to issue an executive order directing the Nigeria Custom Service to use part of its generated revenue to carry out repairs on the access roads leading to the nation’s port to enhance revenue generation of the service.
Chairman of the House Technical Committee on Customs and Excise, Hon Leke Abejide who made the call when he led members of the committee on an oversight visit to Customs formations in Lagos said the nation was losing a lot of revenue to the lack of access roads to the ports.
He said if the roads to the port are constructed, the nation will have no reason to take a foreign loan to finance its annual budget as the money required would be generated from the ports.
He said with the various command in the area generating about N100 billion monthly, it will not be out of place to issue an executive order to use one-month revenue of the Customs to repair the roads saying “how much will these roads cost to construct. I am not sure the roads will cost more than N100 million to construct.
“Even if the amount is more than, we can dedicate three months revenue to construct these roads once and for all since doing that will enhance our Revenue generation.”
