The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Retired Colonel Hamid Ali has warned newly promoted officers and men of the other ranks to desist from lobbying to be posting to areas they will make money rather than work.
Ali, who was represented by the Assistant-General Comptroller of Customs Zone B, Mr. Udo-Aka Emmanuel comprises Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Jigawa, Kebbi and Zamfara States stated this in his welcome address at the Decoration of the Newly Promoted Senior Officers in Kaduna.
He told the officers and men who were among the 1, 977 promoted officers across the Federation to be ready to work anywhere in the country for the progress of the management of Customs.
The Comptroller-General reminded them that promotion comes with increase responsibility, adding that it is unfortunate people of the 21stcentury who occupy offices, do not know their responsibility.
Retired Colonel Ali was of the opinion that gone are those days when leaders will sit or going to meet different commandants to change their posting to where they will not work, saying there is no such thing now.
According to him, customs will not accepts such from the officers saying, this is because they are all trained officers and should be able to bring to bear to the service the experiences they have gathered over the years and urged them not to disappoint the management.
The Comptroller-General said Area Comptrollers will be given an office with about 500 officers with questionable characters, different religion and backgrounds to deal with.
He advised the newly promoted officers have patient and understand to be able to decode the flow of information which will help them in work in their area of reasonability.
Retired Colonel Ali hoped that the newly promoted officers will bring in their best into the system, pointing out that there is room for redundant people or will be show the way out.
