The Chairman Dala Inland Dry Port in Kano State, Abubakar Sahabo Bawuro has said that the port will serve as a very good source of Internally Generated Revenue, IGR revenue for the state and federal governments if properly managed.
Bawuro maintained that the idea of citing the port in Kano, second most populous state in the country and commercial hub of the Northern Nigeria is to ease ways of doing business.
The Chairman made the assertion when he welcomed the newly posted Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Mohammed Sani Umar as officer incharge of the port on Thursday.
He noted that citing the facility in Kano would help reduce rate of unemployment in the state and the country at large.
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He said ” this is a historic moment for us at Dala Inland Dry port as we receive the Deputy Comptroller in our midst . We have been yearning for a day like this when the Custom Service would set their foot at the port as their presence would kick start business activities at the port,”
Bawuro said as management team, they felt very much relieved with the coming of Customs at the port because it would pave way for every aspiring business men and women to have confidence in patronising the it henceforth.
On his part, the Managing Director of the Port, Ahmed Rabiu, who conducted round the newly posted Custom officer ‘, urged him to see himself as member of the port family as from today.
The Deputy Comptroller was taken round all the sensitive units at the port including the entrance, Stacking Unit, Warehouse, administrative block where his office was shown to him , the rail area among others .
Responding, the Customs Deputy Comptroller expressed happiness and described the warm welcome given to him as something he would cherish always.
He said the Dala Inland Dry Port is among the best ports in Nigeria today due to the standard of thework done.
” in the thirty one years of my sojourn as a Custom officer, i have never seen a befitting edifice like this port, hoping that it would stand the test of time,” he said.
Umar promised to do everything possible to make sure that business began in ernest, adding that the idea is “how to creat sound revenue sources for the state and reduce the burden of going to Lagos by our local business men from the north to clear their goods.”
