Zone ‘C’ FOU Customs Decorates 49 Promoted Officers, Record N5b Seizures In 2023 By prince Benson Davies

Zone ‘C’ FOU Customs Decorates 49 Promoted Officers, Record N5b Seizures In 2023

By prince Benson Davies

Zone ‘C’ of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has decorated 46 newly promoted men and officers of the zone and announced that the zone recorded seizures worth N5.351 billion total of Duty value (DPV) in the 2023 fiscal year.
Three officers were promoted from the rank of Chief Superintendent of Customs (CSC) to Assistant Comptroller (AC); five from Superintendent of Customs (SC) to Chief Superintendent of Customs (CSC) and three from Deputy Superintendent of Customs (DSC) to SC.
Also, two officers from Assistant Superintendent of Customs I (ASCI) to DSC; six from ASCII to ASCI; 17 from IC to ASCII; eight from Assistant Inspector of Customs (AIC) to IC and one officer was elevated from Customs Area I (CA I) to AIC.
Among those promoted are the Zone’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Jerry ATTAH, who was promoted from Superintendent of Customs (SC) to Chief Superintendent of Customs (CSC).
Comptroller of Zone ‘C’, Kayode Kolade, while decorating the promoted officers on Wednesday, described the seizures as a result of hard work, resilience, dedication to duty and commitment of his men and officers.
Some of the items seized, he said, included pangolin scales, foreign parboiled rice, cannabis sativa (Indian hemp), fake pharmaceutical products, Tramadol, used vehicles and tyres, used clothes and explosive raw materials, among others.
The Comptroller also said that as a result of the interventions of his officers in checkmating the activities of fraudulent agents at the seaports, lots of revenues, hitherto lost, have been recovered to the tune of N152.4 million.
He charged the promoted officers to live above board and continue to justify the confidence reposed in them by the Service.
He also commended the Comptroller-General, Wale Adeniyi for his continued support and fatherly disposition, which has resulted in the promotion of officers and eased up the activities of officers.
He said : “Let me use this opportunity to appreciate the Comptroller-General of Customs, Wale Adeniyi, and his management team through the Board of the NCS for the privilege and promise our determination and zeal to perform even better as we wear our new ranks.
“New rank comes with new and greater responsibility and we must deliver on our mandate. One thing that is constant in life is change. Due to the recent promotions, there will be changes in our roster and we must justify our relevance in duty assignments. We need to improve our performance this year to meet the target of N5.7 trillion set by the NCS and I believe we can do it.”