Senator Dino Melaye and the
Comptroller General (CG) of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Hameed Ali, on
Monday disagreed over protocol-related matters.
An exchange occurred during the
visit of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Waste in the Nigeria Customs Service to
the Customs Headquarters, Abuja.
Chairman of the Committee, Melaye
said that the Customs CG was expected to have received the committee members
into the premises and not just meeting them at the conference room.
He said the protocol had been the
practice with statutory bodies like Customs, Immigration, Prisons, etc, over
the years and wondered why such etiquette was not accorded the committee.
“Before reading the prepared
speech of the committee, let me make this small remark on what we have just
observed here in form of breach of protocols.
“Mr CG, rather than meeting us
here at the conference room by way of courtesy, you are supposed to have met us
at the ground floor on arrival into the premises,” NAN quoted Melaye as saying.
Reacting, Ali told the committee
that the NCS had its own protocols different from other public establishments
and should not be dictated to on matters of etiquette or protocol.
“We have our own protocol as
regards receiving visitors like you. I don’t need to come downstairs to receive
you just as nobody in the Senate or House of Representatives has ever come out
to receive us anytime we visit the National Assembly.
“Let me state clearly that in the
Nigeria Customs Service we are servants of the people. We believe in Nigeria
and working with others to make it great without being railroaded in anyway,”
Ali said.
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