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A total of 35 senior officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have been retired as Hameed Ali begins a clear-out at the service in a major restructuring. According to Wale Adeniyi, spokesman of the service, those affected in the exercise are the five deputy comptrollers-general of the service; three assistant comptroller-general, and comptrollers serving in NCS headquarters, zonal offices and various area commands.
TheCable understands that the deputy comptrollers, who were given the option of voluntarily leaving the service, wrote a joint retirement letter and leaked it to the media on Thursday, in what was seen as a peremptory PR stunt. The development is coming two months after Abdullahi Dikko stepped down as the comptroller-general after his tenure was not extended by President Muhammadu Buhari. This is the first time that all senior officers on a particular rank will be retired at the same time in the 100-year history of the agency.
After the resignation of Dikko, Buhari had appointed Hameed Ali, a retired military officer known to have a strong reputation, to head the service.
On his part, Ali promised to transform customs, which has been enmeshed in corruption allegations over the years.
“The days of corruption are gone. Anybody caught shall not be left to go scot-free. I am a stickler for the enforcement of the law. There is need for law and order, and it is important to follow the rules as they are so that we all do not have problems,” he had said during his maiden working visit to Lagos.
The top officers who quit on Thursday are: Chukwuma Nwosu, John Atte, Tahir Musa, Adewuyi Akinade and Mera IM.
Diko had advised those behind him not to wait until they were asked to leave.
“I’m sending out this signal to all those who have stayed put. Don’t stay until they ask you to go. When you feel you have done so much and you believe in the system you have built, then why do you stay? Why not leave and watch and advise?” he had said.
Source: Thecable.ng
The affected officers will work assiduously to undermine the success of the NCS.They are all going with bitterness.
Ali is synonymous to sacking go and ask Kaduna State people when he was military administrator in the state under Abacha…..Gatarin Hameed most of the people he asked were reinstated when Democracy came by the administration of Government Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi ……….Secondary school students have to protest against him tagged Ali must go…. he was one of the Federal Government prosecution counsel when Ken Saro Wiwa and other Ogoni men were hanged…. go and find out if you don’y know….
To what benefit mallam Muraina ?
And Kaduna was better managed,total fiscal discipline!
Shehu Abubakar I know Lawal Sambo sacked by Hameed Ali then, but when he was reinstated he became the Chairman of the Joint Negotiating Council of the NLC in Kaduna state, you can’t tell me that guy was a waste when Hameed sent him packing, i know a number of them who are not reinstated and that affected them real bad… that sacking was done arbitrary except if you are too young to remember… Hameed was even curse by the people of the state… you always want people to follow like Zombie… what is bad is bad let face it… you come here and say Kaduna was better manage and total fiscal… in Abacha’s era… abeg save that for the gods… personally i know Hameed to be highly discipline military man who does not amassed wealth for his personal gain, but sacking people from their work is synonymous to him and i come out to say it, how does that become a crime….. i cant be a sidon look, but will say everything i know about people…. I know Hameed so well he is a member in Kaduna Golf Club and i am a friend of that club like i am to facebook….
Yakub Muraina Well,I was probably too young,but I was already a very senior Federal Civil servant and had interacted with a section of the Kaduna Syate civil service,I know the rot I saw then,yes,when you purge,there is no way a few innocent people will not be affected,but then that is always the pain that comes with gyar Mal Nasiru.Am glad you know Hamidu like some of us do,,at least down to his village,don’t give him any assignment and expect half measures,it’s always full throttle with him!
Employment for the youths.