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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Customs suspends duty-free shops at airports Friday, August 13, 2004 ABUJA— THE Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has suspended the operations of  duty-free shops at international airports for what  it termed “flagrant abuse of operational guidelines”. However, the suspension order, which is for a  period of two weeks, took effect from Aug. 11,  2004. It learnt that  the move was aimed at streamlining operations  of the shops and to make the operators adhere strictly to the laws. Confirming the action, Customs spokesman,  Wale Adeniyi said in Abuja  that the  operators of such shops had in recent times  contravened guidelines regulating their  operations. “The NCS management has suspended the  concession given to the duty-free shops for  violating the laws. “They should within that period reconcile  their operations and show us evidence of  sales through such outlets,” Adeniyi said. He said that a lot of discrepancies were  noticed in the mode of operations of the  shops, while others were engaged in the  abuse of the concession granted them. He also said that some of the operators  had imported goods under the pretext that  they were for the shops and later diverted them for sale in the open markets. The NCS image maker said that henceforth,  the service will not grant the operators any  import duty concession until they provided  records of their “up-to-date sales” for  scrutiny by the service. Adeniyi further said that the warehouses of  the operators had been sealed up pending  the outcome of investigations into their  operations. He, however, said that those goods that came through the ports recently could still  be cleared. On Wednesday the customs  top echelon met with some major operators of  duty-free shops at the customs headquarters in   Abuja to iron out areas of contravention. The duty-free shops are located at the  international airports in Lagos, Abuja,  Port Harcourt and Kano.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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