There was a mild drama Monday morning at the Nigerian Customs Headquarters, Abuja, as the ASC1 ranked officer from Katsina state, promoted himself to the rank of Deputy Comptroller General and then invaded the office of the CGC to take over as the new boss.
Nura Dahiru, an assistant superintendent of customs, on Monday promoted himself to the rank of deputy comptroller-general of Customs (DCG), claiming he was directed by President Muhammadu Buhari to assume the office of comptroller-general (CG).
Sources at the Customs headquarters in Abuja said that Dahiru walked in Monday morning wearing the new rank, and went into the office of Hameed Ali, the comptroller general.
“As he came in, officers were saluting him because he was wearing that rank,” one of the sources said
Sometime in May, he had posted on Facebook that he had been directed by the president to take over from Hameed Ali, and today when we saw him in the new rank, we thought, indeed, he has been promoted and so directed by the president.
He went inside the CG’s office, sat in the waiting room, expecting the CG to handover to him.”
The Customs Public Relations Officer, Deputy Comptroller, Joseph Attah confirmed the incident, but said the officer involved is “not in the right frame of mind” and has since been taken for medical examination.
“What happened was that, an Assistant Superintendent of Customs came to the office today wearing the rank of a Deputy Comptroller General,” Attah said.
“From questions and answers that followed, it was obvious that he was not in the right frame of mind, so a Doctor was immediately invited.
“He is presently under going medical examination at the medical unit of the service,” he said.
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