Director General of Customs and Indirect Rights Charles I. SACCA BOCCO, accompanied by some of its technical directors, technical partners of the Benin Customs: Web Fontaine and Benin Control S.A., was at the Customs border post of Hilla Condji on Thursday 02 September 2021.

Objective: to install the new team of managers and to exchange with the economic operators who use this post.
« ...We are soldiers of the economy and patriotism, we must work for a healthy mobilization of revenues ... » Selected pieces of the statement of the Director General of Indirect Customs and Rights to the agents under his dome and users of the post of Hilla Condji. By this important reminder, the first disciple of St Matthew wants to mark a new era for this customs unit that has been covering the chronicle in recent days with financial malfeasance subject to judicial investigation. After a one-on-one delegation with the officials responsible for this Recipe, the Director General of Customs and Indirect Rights assisted by his technical partners wanted to exchange with the economic operators. This is the occasion for Charles I. SACCA BOCCO to remind the assistance of the reforms undertaken by the Government at the customs level with a view to improving the business climate. The dematerialization of procedures is the pillar. It is thanks to these reforms in this case the computerization of revenues that fraud and the existence of unpaid declarations are detected as is the case at the level of this unit where customs officers and freight forwarders were arrested.

A new team composed of AMOUSSOW warm farewell Deputy Chief Brigade, Roukayath BONI YARA Receiver, Cossi Mathieu AIHUNZOUN Head of Commercial Operations (COC) and Clement VIKPODEGNI Chief Brigade was officially introduced to users. She promised to do her job in the art while listening to economic operators. « You must accompany the customs administration and the latter must accompany you. When there are difficulties, it is not up to you to seek to settle by unorthodox ways. » Thus the Director General reassured the availability of its services to satisfy users in this era of reforms where the Beninese customs administration is congratulated by international institutions.
Gwendal EUZEN Director General of Benin Control S.A. mentioned his mission in partnership with customs: facilitating the formalities for the removal of goods imported into the customs cordon; the fight against customs fraud and insecurity, the improvement of customs revenues and the strengthening of customs technical capacity, and the transfer of powers.
Tankian Coulibaly, Director of Operations of Webb Fontaine Benin highlighted the mission of Webb Fontaine at the place of customs users. The aim is to rethink existing practices while proposing innovative solutions based on advanced technologies.
Thus, assistance has been able to grasp the pitfalls and risks in order to circumvent the reforms. The economic operators praised the approach of the customs and then exposed some difficulties on the ground such as the absence of a swing bridge, the question of certificates of origin... Concerns that the delegation had promised to resolve.

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