Customs Orders Nationwide Rollout of Anti-Corruption Measures

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, has ordered the immediate implementation of new anti-corruption measures across all zones, commands and units of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).

Adeniyi gave the directive on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at the NCS Headquarters in Maitama, Abuja, after signing the Standard Operating Procedure for Conducting Internal Corruption Risk Analysis and Mapping (ICRAM), the ICRAM Handbook and the Integrity Action Plan.

The Comptroller-General also formally activated the ICRAM Steering Committee as part of efforts to establish a systematic framework for identifying, assessing and mapping corruption risks across the Service’s operational and administrative processes.

Adeniyi said the documents were developed through a collaborative process involving an internal team, the World Customs Organisation (WCO) and partner Customs administrations, including His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

“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,” he said.

He said the documents were designed as practical tools to enable officers at ports, borders and airports to identify corruption risks within their areas of operation and implement measures to address 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,” Adeniyi added.

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

The ICRAM methodology had earlier been piloted in seven key commands and units, covering 66 processes across regulatory, core Customs and support functions.

The pilot locations comprised Apapa Area Command under the sea modality; Murtala Muhammed Cargo and Murtala Muhammed International Airport Commands under the air modality; Seme Area Command under the land modality; and the Customs Police Unit Zone A, PAAR Ruling Centre and Procurement Unit as specialised units.

The exercise produced an Integrity Action Plan containing 101 action items and 295 sub-action items, with key areas including increased automation, stronger supervision and accountability, improved audit trails and traceability, clear separation of duties, regular staff rotation, targeted training and better officer-stakeholder controls.

The Customs leadership said the rollout is intended to make corruption-risk assessment and integrity measures part of routine operations across the Service.