Pronounced corruption in cargo clearing in the nation’s ports may be significantly reduced, as the Federal Government has banned the use of the old Single Goods Declaration (SGD) to promote new e-clearance procedure.

Already, the Nigeria Customs Service has dispatched a message to this effect to all freight forwarders in the country, directing them to immediately comply.

A copy of the meassage signed by the Customs Area Comptroller, Apapa, Lagos, Mr A. Y. Garko, highlighted that the old order was finally over, saying that “henceforth, all documentations/declarations must be processed electronically.”

A Nigerian Tribune source indicated that the government adopted the suggestion on the advice of the Customs Comptroller General, who felt that the service might never be able to absolve itself of the nagative effect of corruption until it was able to initiate a cargo clearing system which would foreclose human contacts.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, announced in Abuja, on Monday, the kick-off of the single window cargo clearing regime, which would ensure that all other sister agencies would adopt the electronic clearing procedure.

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