WCO-WCA Applauds Nigeria Customs Leadership In Trade Modernisation

Vice Chair World Customs Organisation West and Central Africa, (WCO-WCA), Amadou Konate has lauded the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), for championing trade modernisation and its pace-setting role in Customs administrations within the West and Central Africa region.

Amadou Konate who is also the chairman Mali Customs said other countries would learn from Nigeria.

He stated this at the WCO-WCA Donor Conference Cultural Night-Out and Dinner, tagged Naija night, at the Customs Headquarters in Maitama, Abuja.

Konate tasked Customs administration in the region to ramp up their Customs modernization efforts.

“This particular nation, Abuja, represents something very symbolic to us in Mali. Looking at the base of the West and Central Africa, we are still working on the work that Nigeria Customs has done over the years.

We are taking a lot of examples from here. To do that work different Director General from West and Central Africa and also East.

Africa need to work together to take charge looking at our reforms.

Reforms of modernization. Looking at our challenges, our common challenges“.

The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, also called for deeper unity and collaboration among Customs administrations within the region stressing, that our shared values and common goals must outweigh the differences that separate member nations.

“Those things that unite us are more important than those things that separate us.

Rather than those few things that are orchestrated sometimes from outside our region that divide us.

My message is that we should develop a stronger spirit of cooperation, collaboration and understanding”.

The event which brought together delegates, donors, and stakeholders from across the region, also featured cultural displays, musical performances, and networking opportunities.

Victoria Ibanga