New CG set to emerge at Customs, may get supervisor

New CG set to emerge at Customs, may get supervisor 

Deputy Comptroller General Hamzat Gummi may replace the incumbent Comptroller General, Hameed Ali, a retired colonel, at the Nigeria Customs Service.

Gunmi heads tariff and trade section at the agency.

A report by The Nation on Wednesday however stated a Principal Staff Officer (PSO) outside the NCS could be appointed as superior to the CG.

It quoted an NCS source as explaining that the idea of a PSO would limit the service from having a career officer from being fully in charge.

The source also said some All Progressives Congress (APC) politicians from the North-West were rooting for Gummi.

He said the agenda was being promoted by a group determined to sustain legacies of Ali, including continuation of Customs modernisation project that had become controversial and subject of litigation.

He said under the arrangement, there will be a PSO, a serving general, but working at Customs headquarters.

But many officers view this as an anomaly in a customs management setting.