Customs appoints 6 DCGs, 8 ACGs

Following gaps created by the recent retirement of 34 of its senior officers, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), has approved the appointment of six acting Deputy Comptrollers-General (DCG) and Eight Assistant Comptrollers- General (ACG).
This is said to be part of the on-going re-organisation in the service.
A statement by the spokesman, Mr. Wale Adeniyi, gave their names as: Idris Suleiman (Finance Administration and Technical Service); Iya Umar (Tariff and Trade); and Dan Ugo (Enforcement Investigation and Inspection).
The rest are: Grace Adeyemo (Excise, FTZ & Industrial Incentive) ;Austin Warikoru (Human Resource Development) ; and Paul Ukaigwe (Strategic Research and Policy)
Similarly the Assistant Comptrollers- General are: Umar Sanusi (ACG Headquarters); Funsho Adegoke (ACG ICT); Mohammed Abbas mni (ACG Board); Olatunji Aremu mni (Command & Staff College) and Charles Edike (Zonal Coordinator Zone . The rest are: Abubakar Dangaladima (Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘B’; Azarema Abdulkadir (Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘C’); and Chidi Augustine (Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘D’)
The DCGS and ACG are to immediately take the new positions in acting capacity.
Seven Officers were equally redeployed in the new exercise. They are: ACG Adesina Odunmbaku (Finance and Technical Service); ACG Robert Alu (Tariff and Trade); ACG Ade Dosumu (Enforcement and Drugs); ACG Monday Abueh mni (Excise & Industrial Incentive); ACG Ahmed Mohammed mni (Human Resource Management) ; ACG Patience Iferi (Strategic Research and Policy) and Comptroller Aminu Abba (Technical Services)
The Changes take immediate effect
The Comptroller-General of Customs urged the newly – appointed officers to redouble their efforts to justify their new responsibilities.
The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali, also in Abuja denied sacking 400 officers in the ongoing restructuring of the service.
He told newsmen that he was rather holding meetings with stakeholders to strategise on how to achieve better service delivery in the country.
He said, “I am not aware of any sacking; you are just telling me; I don’t know.”
Ali said that the essence of his visit to some stakeholders was to create a common platform that would drive the mandate and enable the service to achieve its set goals by the Federal Government.

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He said that there was need for Nigeria to focus more on export than import, adding that Nigeria could not grow as a nation if it kept on importing goods and services.
Ali said “We are doing restructuring; I have mandate given to me by Mr President to reform, structure and to raise revenues.
“And in the course of restructuring, a lot of things will have to happen and the visit is one of them’’.
Ali visited the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) where he called for assistance from the institution to enable customs to build its capacity and train officers to handle procurement based on the Established Act.
Responding, the Director-General, BPP, Mr Emake Eze, said that 350 officers from various agencies of the federation would undergo two weeks certification conversion course starting from Tuesday.
Eze said that the essence of the course was to train the procurement officers to be well established as professionals.

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