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Posted By: Onyedi Ojiabor, Abuja On: January 29, 2018
The feud between the Senate and Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd), resurfaced on Monday in Abuja.

Trouble started when the Senate Ad- hoc Committee on Economic Waste in Nigeria visited the Customs Headquarters in Abuja as part of its oversight functions.

The drama was triggered by remarks made by Chairman of the Committee, Senator Dino Melaye, over the way the Senate delegation was received by the Customs high command.

Melaye said by protocol, the Customs chief was expected to come down from his office to welcome the committee members into the Custom premises.

The Kogi West lawmaker said it was a breach of protocol for the Customs CG to casually meet the delegation at the conference room.

Melaye said the practice of ushering in the Senate delegation has been the practice with statutory bodies like Customs, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) and others over the years.

He wondered why such established etiquette which was the norm under previous Customs chiefs was not accorded the committee by Ali.

Melaye said: “Before reading the prepared speech of the committee, let me make this small remark on what we have just observed here in form of breach of protocols.

“Mr. CG, rather than meeting us here at the conference room by way of courtesy, you supposed to have met us at the ground floor on arrival into the premises.

“That has been the practice of statutory bodies headed by Chief Executive Officers like you. Relevant Senate committees have over the years been accorded this by bosses of Immigration Service, Prison Service and others, making us to wonder why it was not so here today under your leadership.

“Therefore before proceeding further, on account of this observation, we want the Customs management to know that the presence of this committee before it implies that the Senate itself is before it to put things in order as regards the economic waste taking place in the Customs Service requiring the seriousness it deserves from you and the entire management.”

The Customs CG told the Senate delegation that the agency has its own protocol that is different from other public establishments.

Ali said: “We have our own protocol as regards receiving visitors like you. I don’t need to come downstairs to receive you just as nobody in the Senate or House of Representatives has ever come out to receive us anytime we visit the National Assembly.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/senate-customs-chief-fresh-feud-protocol/

millomaniac:
Bros you got it wrong. Customs is a civil service, they serve the people. Melaye and Co are representatives of the people. The customs boss should have received them well. Dino is right. just that the President's relationship with the former military customs boss is nepotic.

HeyCorleone:
I have never seen anything this stupid in my life.

imagine a senator, a very ineffective one at that, raising hell because he wasn't given a red carpet welcoming. Because the CG is his servant.

Nigerian politicians and pride.

tribalistseun:
This Ali is too arrogant, all these madness from fulani thieves must end in 2019, after sending the dry fooll in Aso Rock to Daura

Uglyboy:
What if after all this noise and ranting,Buhari still win the 2019 election. Will you drink sniper?

obinoral1179:
that respond was a rape on democracy Alli was nominated our senators was elected if you don't like them you vote them out again but Alli did not only disrespect the senator he also disrespect the 109 constituency.... I don't hold any brief for our politicians but we need to say the truth because this issue is what is his holding this country down and he'll bent on destroying us as a nation. Wish he was sent to the National Assembly for confirmation then he will know who and who we meet him first...... So if minister if interior is coming Alli will stay up and meet him at the conference room...... Truly Nigeria is shithole

tribalistseun:
This Ali is too arrogant, all these madness from fulani thieves must end in 2019, after sending the dry fooll in Aso Rock to Daura

obinoral1179:
that respond was a rape on democracy Alli was nominated our senators was elected if you don't like them you vote them out again but Alli did not only disrespect the senator he also disrespect the 109 constituency.... I don't hold any brief for our politicians but we need to say the truth because this issue is what is his holding this country down and he'll bent on destroying us as a nation. Wish he was sent to the National Assembly for confirmation then he will know who and who we meet him first...... So if minister if interior is coming Alli will stay up and meet him at the conference room...... Truly Nigeria is shithole

obinoral1179:
that respond was a rape on democracy Alli was nominated our senators was elected if you don't like them you vote them out again but Alli did not only disrespect the senator he also disrespect the 109 constituency.... I don't hold any brief for our politicians but we need to say the truth because this issue is what is his holding this country down and he'll bent on destroying us as a nation. Wish he was sent to the National Assembly for confirmation then he will know who and who we meet him first...... So if minister if interior is coming Alli will stay up and meet him at the conference room...... Truly Nigeria is shithole

Proudlyngwa:
I would like to meet this Ali of a man

tribalistseun:
This Ali is too arrogant, all these madness from fulani thieves must end in 2019, after sending the dry fooll in Aso Rock to Daura

easyfem:
Who is diz thing ?

tribalistseun:
This Ali is too arrogant, all these madness from fulani thieves must end in 2019, after sending the dry fooll in Aso Rock to Daura

Ali said: “We have our own protocol as regards receiving visitors like you. I don’t need to come downstairs to receive you just as nobody in the Senate or House of Representatives has ever come out to receive us anytime we visit the National Assembly.”

usba:
That is the man, Col. Ali putting cowards in their place.

deomelllo:
What is the difference? They both serve Nigerians and Nigerians pay their salaries.

Apart from oversight functions, the customs boss own the clown senator nothing, the president is his boss and he functions at the pleasure of the executive/president, not the legislature.


They did not teach you anything about the 3 arms of government or you skipped social studies in secondary school?

millomaniac:
Bros you got it wrong. Customs is a civil service, they serve the people. Melaye and Co are representatives of the people. The customs boss should have received them well. Dino is right. just that the President's relationship with the former military customs boss is nepotic.

linearity:
You are twisting this to suite your narrative.

Custom Boss Ali is not a civil servant; he is a political appointee who serves at the pleasure of the President. He answers to the President and can be fired by him anytime and at will.

Yes, Dino represents the people; but he serves at the will of the people and can be fired anytime by the people.

I will not like to go into your citation of ‘nepotic’ that will be a diversion, put if you look at the Nigeria constitution very well, the President have the constitutional right to chose whoever he wants in his carbinet, the only restriction is the geographical and state representation as indicated in the constitution. The office of the Presidency is not hindered by the doctrine of nepotism as other heads of departments are.

The original post I was responding to mentioned Ali been fired by his Boss, if this had happened in the USA and my response was to refute that. You have not been able to refute my arguments. Constitutionally the people cannot fire Ali, not in Nigeria and not even applicable in the USA, the post’s assertions that I was responding to are blatantly false.