Shettima decorates new customs boss, urges him to bring professionalism back to NCS

By Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja

Vice President, Kashim Shettima has decorated the newly appointed Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi.
He urged the acting CG to bring professionalism back to the Nigerian Customs Service and ensure that every Customs officer can aspire to occupy the pinnacle of his or her profession.
Sen. Shettima performed the decoration in a brief ceremony witnessed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila at the Presidential Villa.
The Vice President, described his appointment by President Bola Tinubu as morale booster for officers in the service.
Speaking to journalists shortly after the decoration ceremony, the acting CG Adeniyi expressed gratitude to President Bola Tinubu for appointing a serving officer as the head of the agency, assuring him and Nigerians of a more effective and innovation-driven Customs Service.
He said “In the last 8 years, the Nigeria Customs Service has gone through a period of transition. In some areas, we recorded progress – we made remarkable progress in E-Customs; we made a lot of breakthroughs in capacity building. But the Customs Service can still live to its full potential when we bring in more innovation to drive Customs operations. These are the kind of things we are looking at in the years ahead.
“We intend to come up with innovations that will carry along all partners and stakeholders. We are going to leverage on technology and innovation to break new grounds in Customs operations”.