Stakeholders in the nation’s maritime industry have knocked the Federal Government over the $3.2bn modernisation project of the Nigeria Customs Service.
Reacting to this, a one-time member of a committee on Customs reforms, Mr Lucky Amiwero, said that the project should not be implemented.
He stressed the need for the government to review the project, adding that the people involved in the project are experts in such fields. “It should be reorganised, it must be investigated because the people who run that programme are not Custom experts. It is something that the government must review, get experts to look at it and it should not be implemented now. The people who supervised that project are not experts. So the government should be very careful, it has to be harmonised.”
Amiwero, who is also the founder of the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, said there was a need for a total reorganisation and reform of Customs. Also speaking, the Acting National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, Mr Kayode Farinto, said, “The project is just to defraud the Federal Government. Firstly, how can you bring in Chinese to come and supervise our Customs when we have indigenous software companies that can handle that? Secondly, everything was shrouded in secrecy and Nigerians do not even know the Memorandum of Understanding signed for the contract.
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