Customs FOU Zone C, decorates promoted officers - ITREALMS

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The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone “C” Owerri, has decorated 46 newly promoted officers in the zone even as it recorded seizures worth N5,351,826,390 billion, in total Duty Paid Value (DPV) for the 2023 fiscal year, reports ITREALMS.

This was contained in a press release made available to ITREALMS by the Zone’s public Relations Officer, Chief Superintendent of Customs (CSC) Jerry Attah Wednesday, informing that the breakdown of the promotion showed that three officers were promoted from the rank of Chief Superintendent of Customs (CSC) to the rank of Assistant Comptroller (AC); Five officers from Superintendent of Customs (SC) to Chief Superintendent of Customs (CSC) and Three officers from the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Customs (DSC) to SC.

Also, he said, that two officers were promoted from the Assistant Superintendent of Customs I (ASC I) to DSC; Six from ASCII to ASC I; Seventeen from IC to ASCII ; Eight from Assistant Inspector of Customs (AIC) to IC and one person from Customs Area I (CA I) to AIC.

Among those promoted were the Zone’s Public Relations Officer, Jerry Attah, who was promoted from Superintendent of Customs (SC) to Chief Superintendent of Customs (CSC).

The Zone “C” Comptroller, Kayode Kolade, while decorating officers, on Wednesday, described the recent 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, were pangolin scales, foreign parboiled rice, cannabis sativa (Indian hemp), fake pharmaceutical products, tramadol, used vehicles, used tyres, used clothing and explosive raw materials among others.

Continuing, Kolade stated 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 N152,492,214.00 million, even as he charged the promoted officers to live above board and continue to justify the confidence reposed in them by the service.

While thanking the Comptroller-General, Wale Adeniyi, for his continued support and fatherly disposition which he attributed to 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 MFR and his management team through the Board of the NCS for this privilege and promise our determination and zeal to perform even more as we wear our new ranks."

*Bon Peters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State/Editor