The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has summoned the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, to appear before it on Tuesday next week.
In a statement issued by Chook Oko, Head of Media for the Public Petitions Committee, Adeniyi is expected to respond to a petition regarding the alleged refusal of certain senior Customs officials to retire despite reaching their due retirement dates.
The petition, submitted by the Obasi-Pherson Help Foundation, accuses several Assistant Comptrollers and Comptrollers of overstaying their tenure in the service. The officials named in the petition include Assistant Comptrollers Imam, Umar, and Egwu, as well as Comptrollers Awe, Fatia, and Faith.
The statement added that Truid Limited is alleging a breach of license agreement by NIMC, noting that E. R. Opara, counsel to Truid Limited, stated that the agreement is premised on an arrangement whereby the Truid Limited funded, developed and deployed tokenization system without any financial obligation from NIMC.
Truid was to get returns on her investment through patronage of service providers and the proceeds shared on an agreed ratio. This was to run for an initial period of ten years from 2021 when the software was deployed.
According to the petition, things were going smoothly until the appointment of the new DG of NIMC who has been trying to truncate the agreement.
Reacting to the submissions of the counsels of both the petitioners and the respondents, Chairman of the Committee, Mike Etaba frowned on the continuous absence of the NIMC Director General despite several invitations.
“If she fails to show up at the next hearing of this case, we’ll have no option than to ask the Inspector General of police to bring her. How can an official of government treat constituted authority with such levity? We can no longer condone such attitude”.
The statement added that Truid Limited is alleging a breach of license agreement by NIMC, noting that E. R. Opara, counsel to Truid Limited, stated that the agreement is premised on an arrangement whereby the Truid Limited funded, developed and deployed tokenization system without any financial obligation from NIMC.
Truid was to get returns on her investment through patronage of service providers and the proceeds shared on an agreed ratio. This was to run for an initial period of ten years from 2021 when the software was deployed.
According to the petition, things were going smoothly until the appointment of the new DG of NIMC who has been trying to truncate the agreement.
Reacting to the submissions of the counsels of both the petitioners and the respondents, Chairman of the Committee, Mike Etaba frowned on the continuous absence of the NIMC Director General despite several invitations.
“If she fails to show up at the next hearing of this case, we’ll have no option than to ask the Inspector General of police to bring her. How can an official of government treat constituted authority with such levity? We can no longer condone such attitude”.