FG Begins Search For New Customs CGS

Vice Chancellor, University of Jos, Prof. Hayward Mafuyai, Secretary to Plateau State Government, Prof. Shedrack Best and Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Mr Ignatius Longjan, at the Information Technology training for Plateau State Government top officials in Jos, recently.

The Federal Government may have begun serious consultations for an acceptable replacement for the Controller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Alhaji Abdullahi Inde Dikko.
A dependable source told our correspondent that it was not the President’s wish to let Dikko go, but due to growing public reactions that appeared to have spiraled out of control, regarding the recent changes and dispositions across board in the military circle.
Our source disclosed that some officers of his management team would also be affected.
Our source also revealed that Mr. President is keeping his decision to sack Dikko and his team close to his heart in order to avert unnecessary disquiet and tendencies at rocking the Peoples Democratic Party boat.
Secondly, according to our findings, the most ferocious of the claimants of the number one Customs seat are the Northerners, who have consistently laid claim to figures and birthrights, in complete disregard of available statistics.
It was alleged that Dikko was hand-picked, deployed by his political mother, Hajia Turai Yar’Adua, the then first lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2009, to join the management team at the Customs Headquarters, Abuja.
The Katsina State-born Customs Area Controller of Seme border between 2007-2008, never knew that the kitchen game of his political mother was for him to take over the leadership of customs in a palace coup, and in 2010, he succeeded the former helmsmen, Dr. Benshaw Nwadialor following his retirement.
Thanks to the human right activist, Barrister Festus Keyamo who has today put the appointment of service chiefs on the right tracks.
But as curtain is being drawn in the life of the present administration, it is not very likely that Dikko will survive 2014 considering the political nature of the office of the Controller General of Customs (CGC). This is without prejudice to his score sheet in the past four years as a Customs helmsman.