Corruption:Nigeria Customs To sack 400 Officers

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There have been speculation that 400 officers of the
Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) will soon leave the
service for corruption, insubordination, indiscipline and
absenteeism, Vanguard reports.

This action is coming following the retirement of 34
officers on Friday, October 30, and the voluntary
retirement of 5 Deputy Comptrollers-General of the
NCS on Thursday, October 29.

There are reports that some of the officers slated for
retirement next week were said to have disregarded
re-deployment orders as well as influenced their
promotion even when they were not due to be
promoted.

Some of these officers refused to show up at their new
postings, instead they obtained notes from legislators, to
stop such re-deployment.

industry executives, the sudden retirement
of Deputy Comptrollers–General appears unsettling as
the development had brought public attention to the
activities of NCS.

Many within the Customs circle believe that the
retirements of the Deputy Comptrollers General will
create room for Customs Comptrollers who have been
idle for some sometime to be posted or deployed to
commands, and give rise for Deputy Comptrollers to be
promoted.

However Adewale Adeniyi, a Deputy Comptroller,
the spokesman of the service, denied knowledge of any
government reports on the affected officers.
In the same vein the NCS has released the official
photos of border patrol aircraft – Cessna CJ4
Surveillance Aircraft.

The aircraft, a Cessna Citation CJ4 , with registration
number 5N-DIA, was commissioned by the Minister
of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of the immediate
past government of Goodluck Jonathan at the domestic
wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport,
Abuja.

Source: Naij

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