Breaking …Customs retires 34 senior officers

In an apparent response to the unconventional decision of five Deputy Comptroller Generals of Customs to resign from the service, the Nigeria Customs Service Friday retired the five deputy comptroller-generals and 29 other senior officers in the service, in what is considered a re-organisation.

The Public Relations Officer of the NCS, Mr Wale Adeniyi, stated this in Abuja.

According to him, the service was currently undergoing re-organisation to re-position it. He promised to provide more details later.

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He later said in a statement, that “As part of on-going re-organisation in Nigeria Customs Service, 34 senior officers have been retired from service with immediate effect.

“The re-organisation of the service is one of the core mandates of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd).

“Those affected in the exercise are five deputy comptrollers-general of Customs (DCGs) who have earlier given notification to the Comptroller-General for voluntary disengagement.

“They are John Atte MFR, Ibrahim Mera OON, Musa Tahir mni, Austin Nwosu and Akinade Adewuyi.

“Three others, of the rank of Assistant Comptroller-General are also affected in the re-organization exercise. They are Madu Mohammed mni, Secretary to the Nigeria Customs Board, Victor Gbemudu, Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘A’ and Bello Liman, Assistant Comptroller-General, (Headquarters).

“The rest are of the rank of Comptrollers serving in customs headquarters, zonal offices and various area commands.

“The comptroller-general of customs stated that the retirements were part of measures to kick-start the repositioning of the service for improved performance.”

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