The comptroller general of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), has disclosed that the Concessionaire for the Customs modernisation
“We laid the foundation for the modernisation because we needed more rigorous modernisation project process whereby in the course of doing our transaction it must get to a point that we are at par with best Customs administrations and most Customs administration today are working on a paperless process,” Col Ali stated.”
He stated further, “We thought we needed to do that and we started the process and we went through the rigors of getting concessionaires and along the course of the process their are people who dropped out for whatever reasons. We embarked on the process to ensure the process come to reality and today it’s a reality.The Customs CG, however, stated that the modernisation project is on ground and would start functioning, saying he was highly disappointed in the controversy it’s generating.
“There are so many stories about court cases, about wasting $3.62 billion but it’s a PPP project. These guys will earn their money from what we collect and not that government will take anything out of its pocket. It will come from Customs collection. “We have done all the sensitisation to carry all our officers along and I can assure you that all officers that are today serving are in tune with this concept, they have imbibe it and all senior officers are in tune with this modernisation.”
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