Federal Government Summons 80 Private Jets Owners Over Operating Paper
The Federal Government through the Nigerian Customs Service has begun a fresh move to clamp down on operators of improperly imported private jets into the country.
Consequently, no fewer than eighty operators of private jets are expected to appear at the headquarters of the Nigerian Customs Service in Abuja with their aircraft import documents.
The special aircraft import verification exercise, which begins tomorrow, is expected to last for thirty days, according to a public notice issued by Customs.
This exercise aims to identify improperly imported private aircraft without documentation, ensuring proper imports and maximum revenue collection.
According to the notice, owners and operators of private jets in the country are to come with some relevant documents.
In the past three years, the government had planned to recover import duty running into billions of naira from some private jet operators who had used certain technical loopholes to evade the payment of import duty.
