Alas, there is some respite in form of good news for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) as 1,561 junior officers of the Customs have been promoted to various ranks.
The promotion was based on the performances of the personnel at the 2016 promotion examinations, annual performance evaluation scores, seniority and available of vacancies at various ranks was released after a thorough vetting to ensure strict adherence to public service promotion guidelines.
A breakdown of the promotion showed Assistant Inspector of Customs to Inspector of Customs, 32 General Duty (GD) and 13 Support Staff (SS); Customs Assistant I to Senior Customs Assistant 510 GD and 53 SS; Customs Assistant II to Customs Assistant 432 GD and 218 SS; Senior Customs Assistant to Chief Customs Assistant(1) five SS; and Customs Assistant III to Customs Assistant (II) four GD and 294 SS.
Big kudos to the newly promoted officers!
Even as we admonish them to change the face of Customs, Can they?
Let us have a new set of Customs officers who would eschew corruption!
Customs doesn’t have to be synonymous with Corruption, even though they both begin with letter ‘C’
