Senate Threatens Arrest As Customs C-G Fails To Appear
Despite the intervention of the Presidency, Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd), again, yesterday, shunned the invitation of the Senate to appear in complete uniform to explain his agency’s controversial policy on vehicle duty. Consequently, the Senate did not only insist that he appears today but also threatened to issue warrant of arrest on him should he fail to appear. The motion was seconded by Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.The Senate’s decision, which followed a motion by Senator George Sekibo, PDP, Rivers East, who relied on Section 89 of the 1999 Constitution as amended, came on a day the Customs Service suspended further implementation of the controversial policy. According to the Senate, the action taken could have been avoided had the institutions of government respected one another. The upper chambers added that it would move against anyone or institution that tried to rubbish it. Angry senators specifically asked ...