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Customs boss, Ali, free as Court dismisses suit challenging him

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8 years ago

September 16, 2016

ustoms boss Ali free as Court dismisses suit challenging him

A Federal High Court in Lagos, presided over by Justice Muslim Sule Hassan, on Friday dismissed a suit challenging the appointment of Col Hameed Ali (rtd) as Comptroller General of the Nigeria Custom Service.

The suit was filed in November 2015, by a Lagos based lawyer and activist, Ebun Olu Adegboruwa.

He had asked the court to determine if President Muhammadu Buhari has the right to appoint anyone as comptroller general of customs without submitting to section 3 of the Official Gazette of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made on March 25, 2002, which states that those to be appointed as substantive Comptroller General are only those within the rank of Deputy Comptroller General of Customs.

But Justice Hassan, in his ruling dismissed the case, arguing that Adegboruwa, not being a member of the custom service, lacked the locus standi to file the case.

The judge also affirmed that the President has the executive power to make the appointment by virtue of section 5 of the 1999 Constitution.

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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azu ralph

September 17, 2016 at 6:09 am

Worry not my bro, loku standing or siting. When a rtd military or other sy svs are appointed chief justice of Nigeria or Fed high courts, then the loku will stand or sit.

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