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The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has summoned the Comptroller General of Nigerian Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, to appear before it Tuesday February 18, 2025 to answer to a petition before it over the refusal of some top officials of the service to leave the service after their due retirement dates.
Obasi-Pherson Help Foundation had petitioned the 10th House, that some Assistant Comptrollers and Comptrollers were due for retirement but have blatantly refused to leave the service.
Issuing the summons, the Committee noted that the CG has a duty as a public officer to explain to Nigerians what the true position is.
“Nigerians deserve to know the truth of the matter and it is only the CG that can clarify the situation. We are elected to serve the people and ensuring that all government agencies function effectively is part of that service. In this era when most of our youths are looking for job, it will be wrong for the older ones who are due for retirement to refuse to go” Mike Etaba, Chairman of the Committee on Public Petitions.
“That is not to say we shall take sides, far from it. We treat each case on merit ensuring that justice is given at all times to the deserving,” he said.
In another development, the Committee has threatened to order the arrest of Director General of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) if she fails to come in person to answer charges on refusal to pay for state of the art software development project installed and deployed for the Commission by a private firm, Truid Limited.
Truid Limited is alleging a breach of license agreement by NIMC, as according to E. R. Opara, counsel to the firm, the agreement is premised on an arrangement where it funded, developed and deployed tokenization system without any financial obligation from NIMC.
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