A customs monitoring system to track down vehicles fraudulently imported into the country without payment of the required duties has been put in place.
The operation launched by the customs administration has been intensified with the deployment of about 100 officers of the special customs intervention unit to track down contraband vehicles and get them comply with existing regulations.
“Vehicles used to occupy the primordial position in our country but were losing this role. Vehicles were relegated to the fourth place in terms of collection of customs revenue,” explained the head of the operations, Commander Ekolle.
They said with the use of each car’s verification numbers, they are able to verify whether the vehicle had been regularly cleared at the port of entry. The system has been used to track down vehicles that were irregularly imported, forcing the owners to regiulairse their situation since the month of February this year.
“The results are far reaching. As of date, we have registered more than 200 seizures many of which are contraband. They came in without necessarily passing through the customs main houses or paying their duties.
According to officers at the Directorate General of Customs, the operation was launched as one of the ways to help the sector attain its revenue target for the state budget as well as bring back customs of vehicles to its original position. Customs monitoring and vehicle tracking system whose implementation is intentioned with deployment of more officers who master the system.
By Doh Bertrand Nua
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