The Nigeria Customs Service has vowed to review officers promotions, recruitment and posting ,saying that a committee is to be constituted to review the previous exercise.
The Customs Comptroller General, Hameed Ali disclosed this on Friday at an interactive session with journalists at the Customs Training College in Ikeja, Lagos, even as he reiterated his commitment to engage in house cleansing that may lead to the sack of officers and men of the service who are found to be corrupt.
The Nigeria Customs Service has vowed to review officers promotions, recruitment and posting ,saying that a committee is to be constituted to review the previous exercise.
The Customs Comptroller General, Hameed Ali disclosed this on Friday at an interactive session with journalists at the Customs Training College in Ikeja, Lagos, even as he reiterated his commitment to engage in house cleansing that may lead to the sack of officers and men of the service who are found to be corrupt.
The customs boss said he had been informed about irregular promotions, postings and recruitments in the service over the years.
In his words, “In every conversation and meeting with my men, I have told them that I realized that there are so many anomalies as regard to their posting, promotion and recruitment.
"We will set up a committee to review the whole thing where people have not been promoted out of no fault of theirs, we will address it and where people have been promoted base on godfatherism we will review it.”
The Customs CG also warned officers who had refused to go on training because they are sitting on a lucrative desk, saying that such era in the service is gone.
“Where people have refused to go to courses because they think they are sitting on a desk where they make some ‘egunje’ we know what to do.
"There are so many internal things that I don’t need to come out and start reeling them because we have taken note of all this and I and my senior management have resolved to look at this and we will
ensure that there his equity and justice in the service."
Meanwhile, the CGC had assured to embark on house cleansing in other to rid the customs service of corrupt officers and men.
According to him, no organisation in Nigeria is corruption-free, but the few bad eggs in the service had tainted others as corrupt.
He said that “most of customs men and officers are not corrupt, but what happened is that because our activities relates to the member of the public, and if there is one bad egg the news go around so far and the impression today in Nigeria is that the that we are all corrupt because of the
activities of some few bad eggs and I have said that we must do some house cleansing and get rid of those bad eggs in other to strengthen the customs.
“There is no organisation in the country that will beat its chest and say no corrupt element in it."
" I cannot also say there are no corrupt elements in customs and I want to say this and say it with all
sense of responsibility that in customs, there are few corrupt elements”, he affirmed.
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