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Alleged Refusal of Top Officers to Retire: House of Reps Summon Customs Boss

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February 12, 2025
Acting Controller General of Customs, Nigerian Customs Services, NSC, Ag. CG Bashir Adewale Adeniyi
Ag. CG Bashir Adewale Adeniyi

Alleged Refusal of Top Officers to Retire: House of Reps Summon Customs Boss

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has summoned the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, to appear before it on February 18.

This is contained in a statement issued by the Head, Media/Public Petitions Committee, House of Representatives, Chooks Oko, on Wednesday in Abuja.

Oko said that the Customs comptroller-general was summoned to answer to a petition before it over the refusal of some top officials of the service to leave the service after their due retirement dates.

“Obasi-Pherson Help Foundation had petitioned the 10th House, alleging that some assistant comptrollers and comptrollers were due for retirement but have blatantly refused to leave the service.

“They named the affected officers as Imam, Umar and Egwu, all assistant comptrollers and Awe, Fatia and Faith, comptrollers as the culprits,” he said.

Issuing the summons, the house said that Adeniyi had a duty as a public officer to explain to Nigerians the true situation.

“Nigerians deserve to know the truth of the matter and it is only the CG that can clarify the situation,” he said.

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Oko quoted the Chairman of the Committee on Public Petitions, Mike Etaba, as saying that they were elected to serve the people and ensure that all government agencies function effectively.

“In this era when most of our youths are looking for job, it will be wrong for the older ones who are due for retirement to refuse to go.

“That is not to say that we shall take sides, far from it. We treat each case on merit, ensuring that justice is given at all times to the deserving,” he Etaba said.

Similarly, the committee has threatened to order the arrest of the Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Bisoye Coker-Odusote.

The committee said it would actualise the threat if Coker-Odusote failed to come in person to answer charges on refusal to pay for the state-of-the-art software development project.

Chairman of the committee, Mike Etaba, frowned at the continuous absence of the NIMC director-general despite several invitations.

“If she fails to show up at the next hearing of this case, we’ll have no option than to ask the Inspector-General of Police to bring her.

“How can an official of government treat constituted authority with such levity? We can no longer condone such attitude,” he said.

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