Respite For Private Jets Owners As FG Grants 30-day Extension

Respite For Private Jets Owners As FG Grants 30-day Extension
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Respite has come the way of Private Jets Owners as the Federal Government has rescinded its decision to ground their 60 private jets over unpaid import duty running into several billions of naira.

Didactic Information Hut recalls that the federal government through a directive from the Nigeria Customs Service to the Nigeria Airspace Management Authority had threatened to ground the defaulting jets.

This follows reports that duties are not being paid on the majority of private jets currently in the country which prompted the NCS seeking to recover unpaid import duties running into several billions of naira.

The planned grounding of these private jets had preceded a one-month verification exercise carried out by the NCS on all private jet owners in the country between June and July.

Speaking with The Punch, the acting Managing Director of NAMA, Umar Farouk, said the jets are yet to be grounded because the NCS sent the agency a new letter requesting another 30-day window for the debtors to clear their import duties.

“We were supposed to ground the jets today (Monday), but we got another letter from customs requesting that the action be suspended for another month, maybe that is to allow for settlement,” Farouk stated.

Similarly, a statement from the spokesperson of the NCS, Abdullah Maiwada, also confirmed the acting MD’s position, saying the customer service had extended the verification exercise by a month.

Maiwada added that the extension was to further engage operators who had expressed willingness to regularise their import duties.

“The Nigeria Customs Service wishes to inform the general public, particularly operators of privately-owned aircraft, that the verification exercise for the recovery of import duties on illegally imported private aircraft has been extended by one month, from Monday, October 14, 2024, to Thursday, November 14, 2024,” the NCS stated.

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