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| Hameed Ali, Comptrollers-General inspecting an NCS parade |
Following the voluntary
retirement of five Deputy Comptrollers-General of the Nigerian Customs Service,
NCS, and 35 other officers last week, there are indications that another 400
officers will soon leave the service for various reasons ranging from
corruption, insubordination, indiscipline to absenteeism.
Also,
some of the officers pencilled down for next round of retirement were said to
have flouted re-deployment directives as well as influenced their promotion
even when they were not due to be promoted.
Vanguard
report continues:
Some of these officers refused to report at their new postings
and instead obtained notes from legislators, who lobbied customs management to
stop such re-deployment.
Industry
executives said the sudden retirement of Deputy Comptrollers–General appears
unsettling as the development had brought public attention to happenings NCS.
Stakeholders
believed that though the retirements will create room for Customs Comptrollers
who have been idle for some sometime to be posted or deployed to commands, it
would also give rise for Deputy Comptrollers to be promoted as some of them had
been on same rank for a long time.
The
alleged voluntary retirement of five Deputy Comptrollers-General is
unprecedented in the history of the service.
The
retirement letter read in part: “We, the under listed officers currently on the
rank of Deputy Comptroller-General met today, October 29, and unanimously
agreed to voluntarily retire from the service of the Nigerian Customs Service
having risen to the privileged rank of Deputy Comptroller-General.
“We
thank the President for giving us the opportunity to serve our great nation.”
Spokesman
of the service, Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, a Deputy Comptroller, denied knowledge of
any government reports on the affected officers.
When Vanguard contacted him
he said: “I do not know what you are talking about.”
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