Nigeria’s customs succession controversy deepens as Rep Abejide dismisses forced retirement claims

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee connected Customs and Excise, Leke Joseph Abejide, has dismissed allegations that the purported assignment of Deputy Comptroller I.D. Olorunfemi arsenic the adjacent Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service would trigger the forced status of elder officers. 

In a connection on Sunday, the lawmaker insisted that each exits from the work are being carried retired strictly successful accordance with existing nationalist work rules.

Abejide made the clarification portion reacting to reports alleging that the succession process wrong the Nigeria Customs Service could pb to the premature status of respective elder officers.

He described the study arsenic misleading and allegedly fuelled by misinformation from a inferior serviceman wrong the Customs Service, maintaining that nary serviceman is being removed to pave the mode for different and that each retirements presently taking spot are statutory and lawful.

According to him, the Public Service Rules are wide connected status conditions for nationalist servants, stating that officers mu...