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Oladunni Morenike
C
omptroller Oladunni Morenike, is the Area
Controller, Kirikiri Lighter Terminal (KLT)
Command of the Nigeria Customs Service.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from
University of Ile Ife now Obafemi Awolowo
University and a Master's degree in Social Works
from the Lagos State University.
Comptroller Oladunni is a seasoned Customs
officer who has served over the years in various
capacities ranging from revenue to enforcement
and also intelligence units.
As a revenue officer, she served as Special
Assistant to five Area Controllers between October
2008 and February 2012. As a Deputy Controller,
she was the Terminal Head of APM Terminals,
Apapa Area Command between August 2012 and
March 2015. While serving as APMT Terminal Head,
she ensured that appropriate revenue was
generated from every consignment imported and
exported out of the country.
Despite numerous challenges, Comptroller
Oladunni has been able to harness available
resources at her disposal to increase the revenue
drive of the Command positively. This is evident in
the revenue generated by the Command in the last
eight months of 2019, as the sum of
9,497,704,598.00 was collected, representing
more than 90 percent of its revenue target for the
ye a r. W h e n c o m p a re d t o t h e s u m o f
6,302,228,485.00 collected within the same
period of 2018, there is an increase of 50.7 percent.
The command's revenue milestone was collected
in the month of July 2019 with over 2.2billion,
being the highest revenue generated at the
Command in a single month.
Comptroller Oladunni is stopping at nothing to
continuously build up the revenue of the command,
bring all extant laws to play without compromising
integrity and bearing in mind the importance of
national security and the lives of Nigerians.
As an intelligence officer, she was a resource
person at the School Of Intelligence where she
taught "Disposal of Classified Waste" and she
was fondly referred to as "Madam Disposal".
After her promotion to the rank of
Comptroller, she served as Controller
License and Permit Unit at the NCS
h e a d q u a r t e r s , A bu j a a n d L a go s
industrial command Lagos prior to her
present posting.
Comptroller Oladunni is the 18th
Controller of the KLT Command,
which is a dry port, and has
succeeded in repositioning the
Command to become the fastest
Customs port achieving clearance
within 48hrs.
Despite numerous challenges,
Comptroller Oladunni has been
able to harness available resources at her
disposal to increase the revenue drive of the
Command positively. This is evident in the
revenue generated by the Command in the last
eight months of 2019, as the sum of
9,497,704,598.00 was collected, representing more
than 90 percent of its revenue target for the year.
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