There seems to be more trouble ahead for the Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Ali as the House of Representatives, on Thursday has ordered the probe of the paramilitary body.
The decision of the house followed 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”.
The mover of the motion said instead of auctioning the seized items worth billions of naira, the service left them to degrade.
He added that 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.
“The failure to auction goods in its custody had denied the federal government over N1 trillion which ought to accrue to it from the auctioning of those goods,’’ he said.
The house after adopting the motion passed it to its committee on Customs and excise to investigate and report back in eight weeks.
Recall that the CG was yesterday turned back by the senate for failing to appear on uniform and directed to reappear before it next Wednesday.
