Customs Boss Humiliates Dino Melaye, Four Other Senators
T here was mild drama at the Nigeria Customs headquarters in Abuja yesterday when members of the senate ad hoc committee on economic waste and the Director General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hammed Ali, exchanged words over etiqutte. The Senators had arrived the Customs headquarters and were received by senior officials of the parastatal. The senior officers then led the senators to the conference room of the agency to wait for the DG to join them for their meeting. When the DG arrived, Senator Dino Melaye before his presentation, experienced his displeasure at the Customs boss over how they were received. According to Melaye, normal procedures as exhibited by other agencies they have gone to, the head of the agency is the one that receives them when they come and not some senior officials. According to Dino, by way of protocol, the Customs CG should have come down from his office to welcome the committee members into the premises and not just meeting them at th