The Federal Government has grounded 91 private jets over the in ability of its owners to pay import duties estimated around to be around N30bn.
FG charged the Nigeria Customs Service to restrict the private jets that are properties of wealthy Nigerians.
According to documents obtained by The Punch, Comptroller-General of Customs, Col Hameed Ali, (retd.) was charged by the FG to address a letter to the relevant authorities including the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency telling them to stop the private jets as soon as possible.
The NCAA letter read in part, “The Federal Government in its drive for enhanced revenues has mandated the Nigeria Customs Service to immediately recover from defaulting private aircraft owners the required statutory import duties on their imported aircraft.
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