Deep rot in Customs Service exposed

The Nigerian Customs Ser­vice is still a nest of cor­ruption, nepotism and other sharp practices de­spite the much acclaimed cleansing of the agency by the current leader­ship, The AUTHORITY can report.

Vices such as promotion and sack of officers on ethnic basis, re­lease of seized vehicles and other goods to friends and families of top senior offices of the NCS are still rampant.

Serving and some recently dis­engaged officers who spoke on the management of the NCS, declared that Nigerians were yet to be told of the evils which are perpetrated against personnel from the South­ern part of the country.

Some of them claimed that it is only in the NCS that officers who should have been sacked are the ones that prepare the list of per­sonnel to be disengaged because they have godfathers in the organ­isation.

One of the recently sacked sen­ior officers with anger and frustra­tion written all over him, told The AUTHORITY that their sack was “ridiculous and driven by victimi­sation because we did nothing to warrant such treatment.”

The Authority, January 13, 2017

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