The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Adewale Adeniyi, on Tuesday signed the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Conducting Internal Corruption Risk Analysis and Mapping (ICRAM), the ICRAM Handbook, and the Integrity Action Plan, while directing their immediate implementation across all zones, commands, and units of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). The……
The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Adewale Adeniyi, on Tuesday signed the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Conducting Internal Corruption Risk Analysis and Mapping (ICRAM), the ICRAM Handbook, and the Integrity Action Plan, while directing their immediate implementation across all zones, commands, and units of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).
The Comptroller-General gave the directive on Tuesday, 6 October 2026, during a ceremony held at his office in the NCS Headquarters, Maitama, Abuja. As part of the milestone event, CGC Adeniyi also formally activated the ICRAM Steering Committee, cementing the Service’s systematic framework for identifying, assessing, and mapping corruption risks across all operational and administrative processes.
CGC Adeniyi said the documents resulted from a painstaking process involving an internal team, the World Customs Organisation (WCO), and partner administrations such as His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), noting that the objective was to ensure integrity remains central to all operations.
“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,” CGC Adeniyi said.
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He explained that the documents were developed as practical tools to enable officers at ports, borders, and airports to identify and map corruption risks within their areas of operation and implement targeted measures to eliminate 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,” he added.
Earlier, the Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs in charge of the Strategic Research and Policy Department, ACG Nafi’u Isyaku, led senior officers in presenting the documents and sought approval for the full implementation of the methodology across the Service.
Prior to the formal launch, the ICRAM methodology was piloted in seven key Commands and Units, covering 66 processes across regulatory, core Customs and support functions.
The pilot covered the Apapa Area Command under the Sea Modality; the Murtala Muhammed Cargo (MMAC) and Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Commands under the Air Modality; and the Seme Area Command under the Land Modality.
It also covered the Customs Police Unit Zone A, PAAR Ruling Centre and Procurement Unit as specialised units.
The exercise resulted in the development of a comprehensive Integrity Action Plan (IAP) containing 101 Action Items and 295 Sub-Action Items.
The key areas identified for action include improved automation, stronger supervision and accountability, enhanced audit trails and traceability, clear segregation of duties, regular staff rotation, targeted training, and stronger controls governing interactions between officers and stakeholders.
