The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says its Comptroller-General (C-G), Bashir Adeniyi, has signed the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Conducting Internal Corruption Risk Analysis and Mapping (ICRAM).
NCS Spokesperson, Abdullahi Maiwada, made this known in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
Maiwada said the C-G also signed the ICRAM Handbook and Integrity Action Plan, directing their immediate implementation across all zones, commands and units of the NCS.
He said the C-G gave the directive on Tuesday and formally activated the ICRAM Steering Committee, cementing the service’s systematic framework for identifying, assessing and mapping corruption risks across operational and administrative processes.
The C-G explained that the documents resulted from a painstaking process involving an internal team, the World Customs Organisation (WCO) and partner administrations, including His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Adeniyi noted that the objective was to ensure integrity remained 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 .
“Also from a number of other Customs administrations that have walked this path with us to ensure that we have a service where integrity leads,” he said.
The documents, he said, 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.
“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 said.
According to the statement, before the formal unveiling, the ICRAM methodology was piloted across seven key NCS commands and units, covering 66 processes across regulatory, core Customs and support functions.
It said the pilot locations included the Sea Modality: Apapa Area Command, Air Modality: Murtala Muhammed Cargo (MMAC) and Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Commands and Land Modality: Seme Area Command.
Others were specialised units, including the Customs Police Unit Zone A, PAAR Ruling Centre and the Procurement Unit.
The statement revealed that the pilot produced a comprehensive Integrity Action Plan (IAP) with 101 action items and 295 sub-action items.
According to the statement, key focal areas included 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.
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