By Chinonye Anyatonwu
Deputy Controller of Custom, DC Ahmadu Shuaibu on Wednesday resumed duty as the new Customs Area Controller, Ogun 2 Command
Shuaibu who had served as the immediate past Zonal Coordinator of the CGC Strike Force Team, Zone A, Nigeria Customs Service, and Tin Can Island Port, takes over from Comptroller Saleh Tadi Bala, who is proceeding on his retirement after putting in thirty five years in the service.
During the brief handover ceremony, Shuaibu addressed producers, manufacturers and stakeholders within the area command to be compliant and play by the rules of engagement.
DC Shuaibu, who was appointed last week Thursday commended his predecessor for putting the Command in the right structure for the collection of government revenue.
According to Shuaibu,
“The outgoing Controller has done his best and it will interest you to know that Ogun 2 is an excise area and the leading area in excise revenue qgeneration all over the country. So, we are not going to rest on our oars, we will ensure that we do not only meet the revenue target but to surpass it.
“I feel grateful to have been saddled with the responsibility to oversee Ogun 2, I invite you to give us the same support you accorded my predecessor to move Ogun 2 forward. I pledge that with your support we are going to be partners in progress”, he said.
Earlier in his speech, the out gone area controller having introduced his successor, thanked the stakeholders who graced the ceremony in their numbers for their support and for patience to key into new policies of government such as the slight adjustment in the duty of carbonated drinks.
He described Shuaibu as an unapologetic revenue collector and urged them to give him every support that he enjoyed for the period of almost two years he spent at the area.
He equally urge the stakeholders to always comply with the new controller, Shuaibu as his name implies is an unbending tax collector and an administer, so extend same maximum cooperation to him as well.
Stakeholders thanked Bala for being an exceptional officer and wished him the best in his future endeavours.
Shuaibu is expected to bring his wealth of experience to bare in the command, which operation is more or less based on industrial and excise duty collection
It will be recalled that while Shuaibu held forth as coordinator of the strike force, he recorded massive seizures of illegal exports in restricted wildlife, protected species, unprocessed woods and assortments of contraband items.
Under his watch, the strike force also shifted strategy from focusing more on imports to identifying export irregularities, resulting into regular recovery of revenue receipts.
