Tinubu approves new Customs appointments

Adeleke Abayomi

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointments of Deputy Comptroller Generals and Assistant Comptroller Generals of Nigeria Customs Service.

The spokesperson of NCS, Abdullahi Maiwada, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday morning, according to Daily Post.

The new appointment includes three DCGs: FO Okun, MBA Musa, and A Hamisu.

Also, three ACGs were appointed and they include K Olumoh, AB Mohammed and A Alajogun.

The statement read, “Following the appointment of the Acting Comptroller General of Customs Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR on 19 June 2023 and the retirement of some management members in the Service, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Federal Republic Nigeria, President Bola Ahmad Tinubu GCFR has approved the appointment of the following Deputy Comptroller Generals (DCGs) and Assistant Comptroller Generals (ACGs): DCG FO Okun, DCG MBA Musa, DCG A Hamisu, ACG K Olumoh, ACG AB Mohammed, ACG A Alajogun.

“While thanking the retired members of the management for their meritorious Service, the Acting Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, congratulated the newly appointed Officers and charged them to redouble their efforts to ensure the Service achieves greater heights in its mandates of revenue generation, suppression of smuggling and trade facilitation.”

This appointment is coming about a month after the President approved the appointment of Bashir Adewale Adeniyi as the Acting Comptroller General of Customs.