Custom Sack Frenzy: About 400 More Customs Officers To Be Axed - See Reason Given

No fewer than 400 Customs officers are to leave the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, for various offenses, ranging from corruption, insubordination, indiscipline to absenteeism, indications have emerged. This is coming after voluntary retirement of five Deputy Comptrollers-General and 35 other officers last week.

It was gathered that some of the officers for next round of retirement were said to have flouted directives of redeployment as well as influenced their promotion even when they were not due to be promoted. 

Some of these officers, it was learnt, instead of reporting at their new postings, collected notes from legislators, who lobbied Customs management to stop such re-deployment. The retirements, stakeholders say, will not only create room for Customs Comptrollers who have been idle for some sometime to be posted or deployed to commands, but also give rise for Deputy Comptrollers to be promoted as some of them had been on same rank for a long time.