There are signs that the retired colonel Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hameed Ali, may be replaced by Deputy Comptroller General (DCG) Hamzat Gummi (NCS).
The Nation reports that DCG Gummi oversees trade and tariffs for the NCS.
According to NCS sources, this would prevent a career officer from gaining complete control over the service.
The sources revealed that politicians from the Northwest branch of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are supporting Gummi, noting that the agenda is being promoted by a group devoted to upholding Ali’s legacy, including the continuation of the Customs modernization project, which has generated controversy and been the subject of legal action.
Ali’s administration did not carry out the $3.1 billion Customs modernization agreement because of presumptive interests.
Many officers consider the PSO’s position as an aberration in the context of customs management because he is a serving general who works at Customs headquarters.
When a working Customs officer is responsible for leading NCS, some officers aspire for an improved paramilitary service.
Buhari commissions the Customs Administration.
President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the newly constructed Nigeria Customs Service Corporate (NCS) Headquarters on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Mohammed Musa Bello, the Comptroller-General of the NCS, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, and other top government officials attended the project’s commissioning with Buhari.
According to OBSERVERSTIMES, President Buhari just commissioned a new project. On Monday, he also officially opened the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, which Aliko Dangote, the president of the Dangote Group, founded.
The new smart Corporate Headquarters cost the NCS N19.6 billion, according to the Deputy Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, in his earlier statement.
The 12-floor tower of the structure has five stories on each of its two wings, with ‘bridges’ connecting the two wings, according to Adeniyi, who served as chair of the organizing committee for the edifice’s commissioning.
