The Nigeria Customs Service has dismissed an Assistant Comptroller General (ACG), Aminu Dahiru, over ‘act of serious misconduct’ as it promoted 2,634 officers and approved the appointment of five ACGs.
The Service also compulsorily retired another ACG, Bashir Abubakar, over negligence.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service, Joseph Attah, on Wednesday.
Attah said the decisions were made following a meeting presided over by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning who doubled as the Chairman of NCS Board, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed.
The statement read in parts, ”Nigeria Customs Service Board (NCSB) at its 52nd Regular meeting approved the appointment of Five (5) Assistant Comptrollers General of Customs, promotion of 2,634 Officers, dismissal of One (1) ACG and compulsory retirement of another ACG.
”The new Assistant Comptrollers General of Customs are:
ACG, Mohammed Boyi – Doctrine Development
ACG, Adewale Adeniyi – Commandant C&SC Gwagwalada
ACG, Jack Ajoku – Strategic Research and Policy
ACG, Olakunle Oyeleke – Training and Coordination
ACG, Elton Edorhe – Zonal Coordinator, Zone ‘C’
”Breakdown of the 2,634 Officers whose promotion have 1st January 2019 as effective date is as follows:
Deputy Comptrollers to Comptrollers of Customs = 37
Assistant Comptrollers of Customs to Deputy Comptrollers = 110
Chief Superintendent of Customs to Assistant Comptrollers = 138
Superintendent of Customs to Chief Superintendent of Customs = 93
Deputy Superintendent of Customs to Superintendent of Customs = 93
Assistant Superintendent of Customs I to Deputy Superintendent of Customs = 1224
Assistant Superintendent of Customs II to Assistant Superintendent of Customs I = 475
Inspector of Customs to Assistant Superintendent of Customs II = 464
205 out of the 2,634 are Support Staff who also enjoyed promotion to various ranks.”
The statement further said the dismissal and compulsory retirement of Dahiru and Abubakar respectively were in line with the reform agenda of the NCS.