Abdullahi Inde Dikko |
The
Comptroller-General of Customs,Mr Abdullahi Inde Dikko appears to be in
trouble as a group has written a petition to the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(ICPC) asking the
commission to probe Dikko’s alleged deals.
Dr. James Onoja who signed the petition on behalf of the group also
asked the ICPC to beam its searchlight into several other alleged
questionable issues and deals by the CG of Customs .Some of the alleged
misdeeds include contravention of the Public Service Rule 070318,
manipulation of promotions, high-handedness, inflation of purchase of
BMW cars for senior officials.
Part of the petition
reads: “The Customs Board was kept in the dark as promotions were
manipulated and Customs Officials were selectively elevate d.
Bootlickers, favourites and stooges were elevated to juicy and sumptuous
positions and postings to Lagos and Port-Harcourt ports.
“Meritocracy was slaughtered on the altar of mediocrity. His reckless abuse of office with unmitigated religious and ethnic bias
“Purchase of vehicles: Prices of B.M.W vehicles for senior officers were criminally inflated.
“About N3.5 billion was siphoned and frittered away into his pocket through an internet project that never saw daylight.
“Thirteen containers
at T.C.I.P. were impounded sometime ago. It was claimed that four
Iranians were arrested with the containers two of which disappeared into
the thin air ”
In particular, the
group urged ICPC to take a critical look at the revenue profile of the
Customs service .According to the group “There is false declaration of
Annual Customs Revenue Generation. In order to give false impression of
excellent performance, the Customs Service adds figure of the Value
Added Tax (VAT) which Customs collects on behalf of Federal inland
Revenue Service (FIRS) to the revenue derived from custom duties whereas
the same VAT figure has been included in the VAT revenue declared and
announced by FIRS as required by law, thereby creating a misleading
duplication of revenue figure derived from VAT.
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