The Senate Ad-hoc Committee
investigating Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has stated that it would commence
its assignment despite the Yuletide season.
Giving this indication at a press
briefing in Abuja, Chairman of the Committee, Senator Dino Melaye explained
that the nature of assignment deserves immediate investigation, noting that
grains seized by Customs were almost getting spoilt.
He assured Nigerians that the
Committee would visIt all Customs warehouses across the federation.
“We assure Nigerians that the
Committee will visit all warehouses in the country to ascertain the condition
of grains held, particularly now that people are hungry.”
“We were told that grains are
held up across warehouses, but we would force releases so that cost of food
items will go down”
“We will reprimand those found
culprit after our investigations”.
“We are going to forgo our break
as we shall be carrying the assignment immediately”.
A member of the Committee,
Senator Kabir Marafa said there has been steady decline in revenue generation
of the Nigeria Customs, saying most Nigerians were not aware of this.
He reiterated that members of the
panel will abandon other engagements to face the Customs probe.
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