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Published 20 May 2021
ON the flimsy pretext of curbing smuggling activities, officers of the Nigeria Customs Service are killing Nigerians with reckless abandon. In a fresh incident, Customs officers brutally shot some people dead during the 2021 Sallah festivities in Oyo State. Disconcertingly, there has been a noticeable escalation in killings by Customs officers since Hameed Ali’s assumption of office as the NCS Comptroller-General in 2015.
Under Ali, the NCS is victimising Nigerians. Iseyin, the fourth largest town in Oyo State, is the latest to bear the brunt of bloodletting by Customs personnel. As the Islamic faithful celebrated the end of Ramadan, some NCS officers stormed the town in pursuit of suspected rice smugglers. Claiming that the smugglers mobilised against them, they opened fire indiscriminately on the crowd. At the end of the shootings, they had killed five persons. This is completely unjustifiable.
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A member of the Senate, representing Osun East Senatorial District, Senator Francis Fadahunsi, yesterday, alleged that fraud was rampant within the Nigerian armed forces and some paramilitary agencies, noting that the nation would not overcome insecurity.
Senator Francis Fadahunsi
A member of the Senate, representing Osun East Senatorial District, Senator Francis Fadahunsi, Friday, alleged that fraud was rampant within the Nigerian armed forces and some paramilitary agencies.
He said that the nation would not overcome insecurity if the fraud and other underhand practices in that sector are left unchecked.
The senator said the arms and ammunition being snatched from Nigerian soldiers by insurgents and the neglect of the defence industry, which is responsible for manufacturing war armaments, should be investigated.
Fadahunsi claimed that the military service chiefs prefer the importation of arms because of what they stand to gain from the exchange rates to the detriment of local manufacturing of guns and other weapons.