Hameed Ali, Comptroller-General
of Customs (CGC) has directed Area Comptrollers to grant Senate Ad Hoc
Committee access to warehouses across the country for inspection.
Joseph Attah, Public Relations
Officer of Nigeria Customs Service on Friday, said the CGC gave the directive
when the Ad Hoc Committee visited to intimate him about the commencement of the
inspection of customs warehouses across the country.
He quoted the CGC as saying
“customs has nothing to hide: our books are open and Area Comptrollers have
been directed to open warehouses for the committee and provide answers to all
questions.
“At the end of the day, we are
all working for the interest of the nation.
“I was surprise to read on some
national dailies that the CGC walked out on the Committee when members visited
the headquarters.”
Attah said the Committee members
had visited customs warehouses in Karu and FCT Command to see if seized food
items were being wasted as alleged by some observers.
He explained that the Service was
operating on a presidential directive that seized food items be given to
victims of insurgency in the Northeast.
“We have so far distributed
252,466 bags of rice and over 80,000 Jerry cans of vegetable oil, soap, ladies
wears and shoes, among others, since 2016.
“The process of handing over
these food and perishable items to IDPs involved some Senators who followed the
National Logistics Committee to present the items to various IDPs’ camps.”
Attah said the Service had also
adopted the e-auction rather than the manual process of auctioning.
He explained that since the CGC
launched the e-auction in the second quarter of 2017, more than 700 ordinary
Nigerians had benefitted from it.
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