The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) is still a nest of corruption, nepotism and other sharp practices
- This is despite the much acclaimed cleansing of the agency by the current leadership
- Vices known in the NCS in the past are still prominent in the service
A report by The Authority indicates that vices such as promotion and sack of officers on ethnic basis, release of seized vehicles and other goods to friends and families of top senior offices of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) are still rampant.
Nigeria Customs Service in corruption mess According to the report, serving and some recently disengaged officers of the NCS, declared that Nigerians were yet to be told of the evils which are
perpetrated against personnel from the Southern part of the country.
The report quoted some of them as
saying it is only in the NCS that officers who should have been sacked are the ones that prepare the list of personnel to be disengaged because they have godfathers in the service.
