{"id":1460,"date":"2019-08-19T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2019-08-19T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:22:19","slug":"compt-kayode-olusemire-maritime-living-legend-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/19\/compt-kayode-olusemire-maritime-living-legend-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPT. KAYODE OLUSEMIRE : MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The story of Nigeria Customs Service\nanti-smuggling operations cannot be conclusively told without the mention of\nComptroller Kayode Olusemire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those whose business it is to know\nbelieve that Olusemire is one the dreaded anti-smuggling elements, who takes on\nsmugglers in hurricane like approach, often with a blind fury. Regarded as an\nold horse, Olusemire has served in the service nationwide and in various\ndepartments and capacities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though it would appear that he\nhas cut his teeth more enforcement, Olusemire is an oracle in revenue and\ntariff reading, a strategist and &nbsp;&nbsp;uncommon\nadministrator, who has a record of uncanny excellence in utilizing scarce human\nand material resources to achieving significant results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the incumbent Controller,\nFederal Operations Unit, Zone \u2018C\u2019 Owerri; the man who has recorded successive\noffensives against economic saboteurs in the South-South, South East&nbsp; region, drilling consist holes in the wall\nchest of funds of non compliant importers and smugglers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olusemire was until his recent\ndeployment to Owerri, the Customs Area Controllr of the Kaduna\/Katsina Command;\nwhere he left an indelible footprint in the matters of revenue generation and\nstrategies, anti-smuggling and compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Prior the 2019 general elections, Olusemire\nbusted almost every strategy to smuggle in offensive security items suspected\nto have been imported to compromise the effectiveness of the elections. Under\nhis watch FOU Zone \u2018C\u2019 intercepted two trucks of military hard wares, on\ndifferent occasion which includes camouflage uniforms, vests, shoes, berets etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since\nassuming control at Owerri August last year, Olusemire has presided over the\nseizures of posh autos that have violated the customs procedure. Unapologetic,\nhe says as long as importers and their agents elect to bring in expensive\nvehicles through cutting corners, so would his men continue to pick up the\nvehicles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Olusemire\u2019s voice has been heard crying\nrepeatedly for importers to get necessary information on cars they wish to buy\nfrom the Customs website or visit any customs formation nationwide; with a\nfurther message that \u201cYou can get any information on import from Customs Help\nDesks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his\ndedication to duty, Comptroller Kayode Olusemire is been decorated with the\nNigerian Maritime Industry Living Legends Award. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Nigeria Customs Service anti-smuggling operations cannot be conclusively told without the mention of Comptroller Kayode Olusemire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,127,117],"tags":[345,102],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-maritime","category-profile","tag-living-legend","tag-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}