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yet another major shakeup in Nigerian Customs have seen 5 Deputy
Comptrollers-General (DCG), and 8 Assistant Comptrollers-General (ACG)
decorated by the Customs boss.
Comptroller of Customs, Hameed Ali
The Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali
(Rtd), has yet done another major shakeup as he decorated five Deputy
Comptrollers-General (DCG), and eight Assistant Comptrollers-General
(ACG) in Abuja yesterday.
The promoted officers have been in acting capacity since May 2017.
The five DCGs join DCG Umar Iya Abubakar who was moved in May from
Tariff and Trade to head Finance Administration and Technical Services
(FATS).
Col. Ali while decorating the 13 officers charged them to heighten
anti-smuggling operations and significantly reduce it in the next three
months. He noted that the Service has made progress in revenue
collection, but that it was not doing enough to reduce smuggling
activities.
“We are making progress with regards to revenue generation, but
I must say we are not doing very well in curbing smuggling. I enjoin
all of you to join hands with the leadership and management of NCS to
ensure that in the next three months, that we have reduced smuggling to
the barest minimum,” Ali charged the officers.
He said with the new team which he personally selected, he was
hopeful that, “We will be able to move forward and reduce the menace of
smuggling, most importantly rice, because I keep getting this
information every day that rice is coming into the country. It is our
job to protect our agricultural policy and that our farmers benefit from
it.
“This is the first time that I would take responsibility for
thorough selection of members of the management. What it means is that
the failure of this management will be the failure of Col. Hameed Ali,
and I hope and pray that you will not let me down,” he noted.
The new management members of the Service are; DCG Aminu
Dangaladima, Enforcement, Investigation and Inspection (EI & I); DCG
Sule Robert Alu, Tariff and Trade (T&T); Mrs Olubiyi Ronke, DCG
Human Resource Development (HRD); Mrs Iferi Patience, DCG Strategic
Research and Policy (SR&P), and Augustine Chidi DCG Excise, FTZ and
Industry Incentives (EX. FTZ & I.I).
The new DCGs replace Idris Suleiman, Dan Ugo, Grace Adeyemo, Austin
Warikoru and Paul Ukaigwe whose promotions were on November 2, 2015, a
few month after Col. Ali assumed office.
The new ACGs however include Ladan Hamza, Mrs Ekekezie Kaycee,
Mahmud Haruna, ACG Talatu Mairo Isa, and Benjamin Abeh. The others are
ACG Fatade Aderinle; Mrs Enwereuzor Francies, and Aminu Dahiru.
Speaking for the decorated officers, DCG Ronke Olubiyi lauded
President Muhammadu Buhari for his pragmatic leadership and the
appointment of Col. Ali. “With the kind of leadership we have in the customs today, it is a must for all of us to serve,” she said.
Meanwhile Col. Ali has approved the redeployment of newly decorated
ACG Aminu Dahiru from Zone ‘B’, Kaduna to Zone ‘A’ Lagos as the Zonal
Coordinator while the Customs Area Controller of Oyo/Osun Command,
Comptroller Udo-Aka Emmanuel is now acting ACG to coordinate Zone ‘B’,
Kaduna.
Heading the Oyo/Osun Command is Comptroller David Chikan from the
Defence College while Comptroller Elton Edorhe moves from Human Resource
Development to head Plateau/Benue/Nasarawa Command.
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