Customs cancel promotion exam for senior officer over irregularities
- Nigeria Customs Service has cancelled a promotion examination over irregularities during the conduct of the exam
- The examination was conducted for senior officers from the rank of Assistant Comptroller to Deputy Comptroller
- The 2017 Promotion Examination which was taken on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 would be repeated on Monday, November 27, 2017
A recent promotion examination conducted for senior officers from the rank of Assistant Comptroller to Deputy Comptroller has been cancelled by the Nigeria Customs Service over irregularities observed in the conduct of the exam
Legit.ng gathered that the Comptroller General of the Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.) in an internal circular signed by the deputy comptroller general in charge of human resources, dated November 22, 2017, ordered the cancellation.
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The circular also stated that Monday, November 27, 2017, had been fixed for a repeat of the examination at the Customs Command at Staff College, Gwagwalada, Abuja.
The circular with reference number NCS/ABJ/HRD/560/C/VOL.VIII addressed to all management staff and Customs formations nationwide read, ”The 2017 Promotion Examination (CBT) AC-DC (GD) taken on October 11, 2017, has been cancelled.
“This is consequent upon violation of the integrity of the examination process.”
Sources within the service said the examination, which was conducted on October 11, 2017, was allegedly marred by irregularities including leakage of examination questions.
They added that the promotion examination under the management of Ali was of higher integrity compared with the previous ones.
Joseph Attah, the public relations officer, NCS, said that promotion exams were conducted for all the ranks in the service but only one paper was cancelled.
He explained that the paper that was cancelled was the promotion examination paper written by Assistant Comptrollers that was to qualify them for promotion to the Deputy Comptroller rank.
“The paper was cancelled due to integrity issue and because the current NCS has zero tolerance for lack of integrity. The exam was rescheduled for Monday.
“The NCS is doing this so that the officers who would be promoted would be people of high integrity who have no question mark on their character,” he said.
According to an earlier report by Legit.ng, the Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone B of the Nigeria Customs Service has seized a bullet proof vehicle imported into the country illegally.
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The area controller of the zone, Usman Dakingari, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday. November 17, in Kaduna that the vehicle had no end user certificate.
He explained that such vehicles are only imported with the permission of the National Security Adviser (NSA).
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Source: Legit.ng
