HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SUMMONS CUSTOM’S CG OVER REFUSAL OF SOME STAFF TO LEAVE SERVICE AFTER RETIREMENTS 12-02-25
By Sadiq Aminu The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has summoned the Comptroller General of Nigerian Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi to appear before it Tuesday next week to answer to a petition before it over the refusal of some top officials of the service to leave the service after their due retirement dates.
Issuing the summons, the House noted that the CG has a duty as a public officer to explain to Nigerians what the true position is.
The Chairman of the Committee Mike Etaba, who emphasized that the House would treat each case before the Green Chamber on merit, said Nigerians deserve to know the truth of the matter and it is only the CG that can clarify the situation.
Obasi-Pherson Help Foundation had petitioned the 10th House alleging that some Assistant Comptrollers and Comptrollers were due for retirement but have blatantly refused to leave the service.
In a related development, the Committee has threatened to order the arrest of the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Identity Management Commission, NIMC if she fails to come in person to answer charges on refusal to pay for state of the art software development project installed and deployed to the commission by a private firm, Truid Limited.
Truid Limited in their petition alleged a breach of license agreement by NIMC. According to the counsel of Truid Limited, Truid was to get returns on their investment through patronage of service providers and the proceeds shared on an agreed ratio.
The petitioner said things were going on smoothly until the appointment of the new DG of NIMC who has been trying to truncate the agreement.
Reacting to the submissions of the counsels of both the petitioners and the respondents, Chairman of the Committee, Mike Etaba frowned on the continuous absence of the NIMC Director General despite several invitations.