CGC Adeniyi Activates New Anti-Corruption Panel for Nigeria Customs

By Saheed Olatunji, Reporter

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CGC Adeniyi said the documents resulted from a painstaking process involving an internal team, the World Customs Organisation (WCO), and partner administrations such as His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), noting that the objective was to ensure integrity remains central to all operations.

​“These two documents are products of a painstaking process which we have undertaken with efforts from an internal team working together with our partners from the WCO and a number of other Customs administrations that have walked this path with us to ensure that we have a Service where integrity leads,” CGC Adeniyi said.

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He explained that the documents were developed as practical tools to enable officers at ports, borders, and airports to identify and map corruption risks within their areas of operation and implement targeted measures to eliminate them.

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“We want to believe that we have laid a practical step, very easy to follow, for all our operatives at the ports, the borders, and the airports, to be able to conduct corruption risk mapping in their places, giving them the opportunity and capacity to implement the action plan to instil integrity in our system,” he added.

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Earlier, the Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs in charge of the Strategic Research and Policy Department, ACG Nafi’u Isyaku, who led senior officers to present the documents, sought approval for its full rollout across the Service.

Before the formal launch, the ICRAM methodology was piloted across seven key Commands and Units, covering 66 processes across regulatory, core Customs, and support functions. The pilot locations included:

​• Sea Modality: Apapa Area Command

​• Air Modality: Murtala Muhammed Cargo (MMAC) and Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Commands

​• Land Modality: Seme Area Command

​• Specialised Units: Customs Police Unit Zone A, PAAR Ruling Centre, and the Procurement Unit.

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The pilot produced a comprehensive Integrity Action Plan (IAP) with 101 Action Items and 295 Sub-Action Items. Key focal areas include enhanced automation, strengthened supervision and accountability, robust audit trails and traceability, clear segregation of duties, regular staff rotation, targeted training, and improved officer-stakeholder controls.