The House of Representatives, on Thursday ordered the
probe of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, under the
leadership of its Comptroller General, Hameed Ali.
The decision was taken following the adoption of a motion
sponsored by member from Abia, Prestige Ossy on the
“Need to Investigate the Failure of the Nigerian Customs
Service to Auction Confiscated Goods”.
said instead of auctioning the seized items worth billions of
naira, the service left them to degrade.
The lawmaker said it was worrisome that since the ban
took effect in 2015, “It had resulted to the proliferation of
seized goods at various formations of the Nigerian
customs service”.
Ossy said “most of these goods, especially the vehicles
with duty paid value (DPV) worth over N6 billion, are
rapidly depreciating.
“The customs service will eventually spend huge amount of
money in disposing them when it ought to have generated
huge revenue for the government by auctioning them
before they wither away.
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