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The immediate past Customs Area Controller in charge of the Idiroko Border Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller Dera Nnadi, mni, has joined the league of the nation’s policy strategists, having successfully completed his one-year tutelage at the prestigious National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, Plateau State.
He is among the Senior Executive Course, SEC, comprising 44 participants who have just completed their course.
Speaking exclusively on the successful completion of the course, shortly after the graduation ceremony at the institute, Saturday, Comptroller Nnadi noted that it was a further call to service, expressing determination to work towards upholding the nation’s supply chain management, as the course has enabled him to learn new things, especially national cohesion.
According to him, being selected for the course remains a great privilege, which he must reciprocate by renewing his commitment to the service in particular and the Nigerian nation as a whole.
“I have learnt new skills that will help me in further contributing to nation building; the most important being national cohesion, having been with 88 others from other backgrounds. I have further sharpened my potential for upholding service and national integrity,” Nnadi said.
He expressed gratitude to the Comptroller General of the service, Col. Hameed Ali, rtd, and his management team for finding him worthy to attend such a course and vowed to reciprocate the gesture through more dedication to the service.
He said: “As I graduate as member of national institute, mni, from the nation’s foremost National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, I renew my commitment to Nigeria Customs Service and the integrity of Nigeria’s supply chain.
“I thank the Almighty God, and I will remain eternally grateful to the CGC, Col. Ibrahim Hameed Ali, rtd and his entire management for finding me worthy of attending this course. It is a call to service and I will serve as expected.”
Dignitaries at the official graduation ceremony include Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, who was represented by the Minister of Transport, Engr. Mu’azu Sambo and former Inspector General of Police, M.D. Abubakar, among several others.
Recall that a practical demonstration of executive skills has, over the years, placed Comptroller Nnadi as a well-focused and distinguished officer of the Nigeria Customs Service, even as the nation’s socio-economic and political re-engineering assumes a crescendo.
For instance, in his last posting as CAC at the Idiroko Border Command, just before this course, the command, under his watch, seized a total of 12 lorry loads of foreign parboiled rice and other contraband items valued at N172.9million in less than one month. This was as a result of the relaunch of the command’s anti-smuggling campaign.
The command also generated a total of N2.4million revenue mainly from auction sale of seized petroleum products, especially the Premium Motor Spirit PMS and scrap metals. This came against the backdrop of the Federal Government’s directive on border closure which outlaws import and export activities on that trade corridor.
Other contrabands seized during the one-month period include: 300 litres of vegetable oil packaged in 25-litre kegs, 20 units of used vehicles, which were means of conveyance, two pieces of motorcycles also used as means of conveyance, four bales of used clothing materials and 26 sacks of used shoes.
The command also seized 637kg of Cannabis; 20, 775 litres of PMS loaded in 25-litre kegs; 810 cartons of frozen poultry and four sacks of used toys with a cumulative duty paid value DPV of N172.9million, among others.
With Nnadi’s joining of the nation’s league of policy strategists, the Nigeria Customs Service is, indeed, agog with the coming on stream of an officer whose practical demonstration of executive skills knows no bounds./SHARE THIS
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