VP Shettima decorates new Customs CG Adeniyi at State House

Vice President Kashim Shettima on Monday decorated the new Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi. Shettima noted that the appointment made by President Bola Tinubu is morale booster for officers in the Customs Service.
The Director of Information in the Office of the Vice President, Olusola Abiola, in Statement on Monday, indicated that Shettima, at a brief ceremony observed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, at the State House, Abuja, expressed congratulated CG Adeniyi for bringing professionalism back to the Nigeria Customs Service.
The Vice President stated: “congratulations for bringing professionalism back to the Nigerian Customs Service. Now, every Customs officer can aspire to occupy the pinnacle of his or her profession.
“I wish you well, on behalf of the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, Congratulations, once again.”
CG Adeniyi, in a media interaction at the State House, after the decoration ceremony, expressed gratitude to President Bola Tinubu for appointing a serving officer as the head of the agency, assuring him and Nigerians of a more effective and innovation driven Customs Service.

According to the CG: “In the last 8 years, the Nigeria Customs Service has gone through a period of transition. In some areas, we recorded progress – we made remarkable progress in E-Customs; we made a lot of breakthroughs in capacity building. But the Customs Service can still live to its full potentials when we bring in more innovation to drive Customs operations. These are the kind of things we are looking at in the years ahead.”
CG Adeniyi maintained: “we are going to be professional in our approach, there are a number of key stakeholders that we are going to be working with, it is a very onerous task but we are going to be working alongside other stakeholders and partners that we have identified.
“We intend to come up with innovations that will carry along all partners and stakeholders. We are going to leverage technology and innovation to break new grounds in Customs operations”.