Indications are rife that the newly retired officers
of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have not
vacated their offices because there is no board
that will rectify and approve their retirement.
Customs boss, Hameed Ibrahim Ali
The situation has also affected newly promoted
officers, who cannot move to their new offices for the
same reason, Vanguard reports.
Sources at the NCS said the retired officers still come
to their work station but not in their uniform.
According to the Customs And Excise Management
Act (CEMA), the Comptroller-General of Customs
does not have the powers to retire or promote
certain level of officers without recourse to the
board.
The yet to be constituted board oversees the
formulation of general policy guidelines for the
NCS. The board also has the power to promote,
transfer and confirm appointments and dismiss
persons and exercise other disciplinary action over
person so appointed.
The Minister of Finance chairs the board of the NCS,
other members of the board include the newly
retired Deputy Comptrollers-General, a
representative of the Ministry of Transport,
representative of the Ministry of Commerce and
Industry, Chairman of the Inland Revenue Service
(IRS), Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN)
and Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce,
Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA).
While the retirees cannot leave their offices, the
newly promoted officers cannot take over,
because the Comptroller-General of Customs cannot
take certain decisions until the board is constituted.
But the NCS spokesman, Adewale Adeniyi, has denied
the development. He stated that the new
management of the NCS has been inaugurated. He
informed that all the newly promoted officers were in
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