*Vows Not to Betray Confidence Repose in Him by CGC and NCS Management Team
The Customs Area Controller (CAC), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin Can Island Port Command (TCIP), Comptroller Frank Onyeka has unveiled his plan to meet and surpass the revenue target set for his command by the NCS High Command, Abuja.
Besides facilitating trade facilitation, he said the command will encourage its users to engage in what he called “legitimate trade and businesses”.
To actualize his dream, the CAC disclosed that he has secured the buy-in of his officers and men to ensure that the trust reposed in him by NCS management is not dashed.
While expressing gratitude to the Comptroller General of Customs, Alhaji Bashir Adewale Adeniyi for the confidence reposed in him by appointing him a CAC of Nigeria’s second busiest seaports, he vowed to live up to expectation in the discharge of his statutory roles and responsibilities.

Onyeka made this known while hosting the Maritime Reporters’ Association of Nigeria (MARAN) executives who paid him a courtesy visit in TCIP recently.
His words: “I will facilitate trade but it has to be legitimate trade. That’s what I feel I should do in the strict sense of the word. You know, I am coming from the aspect of revenue. So, it is my prayer and my hope to meet my target and surpass it.
“But principally, what I am going to fight is the ability to do this job without examination. I have appealed to my officers, whatever it is they have to do, let them see the containers, once we have examined them, everything should be on cruise control because if you examine, you’ will now know if it supposed to go out or not.
“I have involved Customs Intelligence Unit (CIU). I have involved Valuation Unit. I have spoken to all relevant units and it is my prayer, by the grace of God, that all of us will be on the same page to make sure that the renewed hope agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is brought to fruition”.
Apparently aware that without the official nod of the CGC he would not have been appointed CAC of TCIP, Onyeka said: “I thank the Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi for the confidence reposed in me. I vowed never to disappoint him. I appreciate our indefatigable Comptroller General of Customs, CGC Bashir Adewale Adeniyi for whom I am very grateful. He needs to be made to know that he did not make any mistake for him to have brought me here. I am very grateful to him and his management team, and I need to make him proud.”
The CAC also vowed to build on the foundation that has been laid by his predecessor, Assistant Comptroller General (ACG), Mr. Dera Nnadi.
According to him, Nnadi did well in his anti-smuggling campaign. He also did well in revenue generation and infrastructure development. His public relation was top-notch. This is what I am going to leverage on. He was fortunate to have what I consider a very fantastic rapport with the media because that is his background. I intend to leverage on that too and even do better.
President of MARAN, Mr. Godfrey Bivbere had earlier in his address expressed the willingness of the association to partner with the CAC and TCIP command to achieve its target.
Bivbere reiterated the firm resolution of MARAN to accord Onyeka the same support accorded Nnadi.