The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS,
has explained that it is not changing its uniform but is only introducing
another one to be worn by officers who are working in an office or at the
airport.
Making this clarification on Friday, Public Relations Officer of the Service, DC Joseph Attah
stated that the uniform would not be worn by its operatives on petrol, adding
that the additional uniform was introduced so that Customs operatives would not
have to wear one uniform all through the month.
The Customs spokesman pointed out
that while other military and para-military organisations have two or three
different uniforms, Customs had one all along.
He stated that the plan for the
NCS to have an additional uniform had been in the works for some time now with
different samples considered until the management agreed with that which was
recently made public.
Attah started with this question:
“Other uniform organisations, don’t they have two or three different wears that
they can use in different situations and on different assignments?” before
saying, “We have introduced an additional new dress. Addition not a change of
uniform.
“It can be worn when you’re
working in an office, maybe in an airport or depending on the type of
assignment. Of course, you know you can’t wear this one to patrol.
“If you look at Air force, you
look at Navy, you look at the Police, you’ll discover that they have different
colours of uniform. If you even look at the Immigration, there are different
colours.
“For some time now, Customs is
just one and you keep wearing one thing from the first day of the month to the
last day of the month.
“This thing has been in the
pipeline. We have been discussing it. We had sewn samples, management had gone
through it for a very long time. And finally they said ‘it’s okay we can go
public now’. And even while going public, we only used two people to wear it
and go public and we released a press statement.”
On whether all personnel of the
Service would immediately start putting on the uniform, the Customs spokesman
said, “The additional uniform will still go round but for now we are saying
that only commissioned officers will start wearing it.
“We have declared it official as
I speak with you, and many people are making efforts to get their materials.
“Maybe, eventually we will just
decide that between so so days you, can appear in it so that you don’t just
wear one cloth from the beginning of the week to the end of the week
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