{"id":1375,"date":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/senate-summons-comptroller-general-of-customs-over-refusal-to-comply-with-senates-resolution-to-halts-its-policy-on-payment-of-vehicle-duties\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","slug":"senate-summons-comptroller-general-of-customs-over-refusal-to-comply-with-senates-resolution-to-halts-its-policy-on-payment-of-vehicle-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/senate-summons-comptroller-general-of-customs-over-refusal-to-comply-with-senates-resolution-to-halts-its-policy-on-payment-of-vehicle-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Summons Comptroller General Of Customs Over Refusal To Comply With Senate&#8217;s Resolution To Halts Its Policy On Payment Of Vehicle Duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has called on the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hamid Ali to appear before its Chambers fully dressed in his Customs attire following the retired Colonel\u2019s refusal to halt a policy on impounding vehicles with no custom duty. Moving the motion under matters of urgent public importance at the plenary session of Thursday, March 9<sup>th<\/sup> 2017, Sen. Dino Melaye (APC: Kogi) expressed dismay that the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) had continued the policy despite a resolution of the Senate issued on March 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017 calling for its discontinuance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in support of the motion, Sen. Olamilekan (APC: Lagos) called on the National Assembly to amend existing laws that establish independent agencies to ensure that its heads are subjected to confirmation. He also noted that the &#8220;high-handedness&#8221; of the Comptroller General must be addressed following his refusal to put on the official uniform of the agency in a prior investigative hearing of the Senate. The Comptroller General has been scheduled to appear before the Senate on Wednesday, March 15<sup>th<\/sup> 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that the Senate at its plenary session of the said March 7<sup>th<\/sup> 2017, resolved to invite the leadership of the Nigerian Customs Service to appear before its Committee on Customs to clarify the rationale behind its policy. However, in response to reports that the Comptroller General failed to respect the Senate&#8217;s resolution for the discontinuance of the policy pending his appearance before the Committee, the Senate has adopted a firmer stance by summoning him before the Chamber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has called on the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hamid Ali to appear before its Chambers fully dressed in his Customs attire following the retired Colonel\u2019s refusal to halt a policy on impounding vehicles with no custom duty. Moving the motion under matters of urgent public importance at the plenary session of Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"PLAC","author_link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/author\/olumide-adebayo\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dgofcustom-300x198.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 10, 2017","modified":"Updated on March 10, 2017"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 10, 2017 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on March 10, 2017 12:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}