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My mission at customs, by Ali

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9 years ago

September 11, 2015

About two weeks after he was named by President Muhammadu Buhari to head the agency as Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NIS) Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd) has finally formally resumed duty and reeled out his mandate at the NIS as handed down to him by the president.

Ali while speaking at his maiden meeting with management and staff of the service said he was given a clear mandate by President Buhari to reform the Nigeria Customs Service and ensure an increased revenue collection.

While charging the customs management to work with him to deliver on the president’s mandate, he said: “The mandate he has given me are three basic things: go to customs, reform customs, restructure customs and increase the revenue generation, simple. I don’t think that is ambiguous, I don’t think that is cumbersome. It is precise and I believe that is what all of you are here to do.”

He pleaded with the management not to see him as a stranger in the customs family, noting that his mission in customs is to help build and strengthen the service.

According to a statement by the public relations officer of the service, Wale Adeniyi, Ali solicited the support and loyalty of all officers and men in the collective effort to make Nigeria customs a better service.

Earlier, the Deputy Comptroller General covering duties for the CGC, John Atte, while handing over, gave the new CGC a brief history of the service and assured him of unquestionable loyalty of officers and men to work towards suppression of smuggling, and increase revenue collection in the interest of the nation.

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