BREAKING: Senate summons Hameed Ali to appear in custom’s uniform

Leke Baiyewu, Abuja

The Senate has asked the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.,  to appear “in plenary in uniform” on Wednesday “unfailingly.”

Members of the Senate are pushing for drastic action against the NCS and its D-G over the refusal to suspend action on the proposed clamp down on vehicles without duty payment, as ordered by the legislature.

The senators vent their anger during the plenary on Thursday.

Part of the actions proposed by the senator is to summon Ali to appear before all the lawmakers in the chamber in Customs uniform, which the NSC boss had refused to wear.

The lawmakers also called for Ali’s removal of he failed to comply with directives from the Senate.