Nura Dahiru, an assistant
superintendent of customs, on Monday promoted himself to the rank of deputy
comptroller-general of Customs (DCG), claiming he was directed by President
Muhammadu Buhari to assume the office of comptroller-general (CG).
Sources at the Customs
headquarters in Abuja revealed that Dahiru walked in Monday morning
wearing the new rank, and went into the office of Hameed Ali, the comptroller
general.
“As he came in, officers were
saluting him because he was wearing that rank,” one of the sources said.
“Sometime in May, he had posted
on Facebook that he had been directed by the president to take over from Hameed
Ali, and today when we saw him in the new rank, we thought, indeed, he has been
promoted and so directed by the president. He went inside the CG’s office, sat
in the waiting room, expecting the CG to handover to him.”
Joseph Attah, spokesman of
customs, said Dahiru was not in the right frame of mind when he took the
action.
“What happened was that, an
assistant superintendent of Customs came to the office wearing the rank of a
Deputy Comptroller General,” he said.
“From questions and answers that
followed, it was obvious that he was not in the right frame of mind, so a
doctor was immediately invited. He is presently undergoing medical examination
at the medical unit of the service.”
Dahiru
needed to be promoted at least nine times to rise to the height of
comptroller-general.
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