Nigeria Customs Service has reconstituted its management and
announced some key appointments.
Public Relations Officer, Joseph Attah, in a statement on
Wednesday, said the service has appointed four Acting Deputy
Comptroller-Generals (DCGs) and seven Acting Assistant Comptroller-Generals
(ACGs) to re-engineer the management for efficient service delivery.
Attah said that the Comptroller-General of Customs, retired
Col. Hameed Ali, also approved the deployment of eight Comptrollers.
He said that the new management members include Mr Alu
Robert, ACG Traiff and Trade now Acting DCG Tariff and Trade; Mrs Olubiyi
Ronke, ACG FATs now DCG HRD; ACG E.I.I Dangaladima Aminu now Acting DCG E.I.I;
and ACG Iferi Patience SR&P now Acting DCG SR&P and ACG ExFTZ&I.I
Chidi Augustine to Acting DCG ExFTZ&I.I.
Other appointments were Comptroller Investigation Hamza
Ladan now Acting ACG FAT; Comptroller VAL Ekekezie Kaycee to Acting ACG
T&T; Comptroller FOU Haruna Mamud to Acting ACG E.I.I; CAC ED/DT Mrs Sarki
Umar now Acting ACG Ex.FTZ&I.I, and CAC Mrs Enwereuzor Francis now Acting
ACG SR.
CAC FCT Dahiru Aminu was also promoted to Acting ACG Zonal
Coordinator, while DCG Umar Abubakar who was formally in charge of Tariff and
Trade was deployed to Finance, Administration and Technical Services.
Attah said that the customs boss has charged the appointees
to bring their experiences to bear in the administration of the service.
“The modest achievements of the ongoing reform agenda in the
areas of revenue generation, anti-smuggling operations and trade facilitation
must be sustained and improved upon in the interest of the nation,” Attah said.
By Wale Odunsi
