EXCLUSIVE: Customs High Command Endorsed Modernization Project, Behind its Presidential Approval - Investigation


Contrary to the widespread reports that the recent $3.1billion federal government contract approval for Customs modernization project is an imposition on the Nigeria Customs Service, the top management of the service was part of the processes that led to its approval by President Muhammadu Buhari and subsequent ratification by the Federal Executive Council (FEC), Business & Maritime West Africa can authoritatively reveal.

Investigation shows that it was Col Hameed Ali (Retd), the Customs Comptroller- General of the Service, that called for the modernization, contrary to views being expressed by some stakeholders that customs operation has been sufficiently modernized and needs no further private sector-led modernization.

Business & Maritime West Africa can authoritatively reveal that the Customs Service was part and parcel of the project and duly gave its approval before the Presidency came into it. It was the Customs CG himself who took Bionica Technologies W.A Limited to the Presidency, a highly placed source in the service revealed.

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