Reps committee queries Customs for purchase of more ports scanners
The Committee had earlier approved the purchase of the scanners while approving the budget of the Nigeria Customs Service.
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The House of Representatives Committee on Customs has faulted the plans by the federal government to purchase four new scanners for the
The NSC is planning to purchase scanners, while refusing to repair the existing ones.
However, the same committee had earlier okayed the purchase of the scanners when it approved the budget of the organisation.
In April, the House had warned against “China made scanners” and advised the apex bank to get German or American products.
By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja
House of Representatives has said it was not favourably disposed to the bid by the Federal Government to purchase new scanners for the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS when the 22 old ones procured at the cost $120 million were lying fallow.
The House said it would rather prefer that the old ones be repaired and put to use instead spending another taxpayers money.
Members of the House Committee on Customs and Excise expressed the position at a public hearing, Monday, on the lack of transparency on the transfer of technical know-how from Cotecna Destination Inspection Limited, Societe Generale De Surveillance, to Nigeria Customs Service and Global Scan Systems which led to the collapse of multimillion dollar scanners at Nigeria’s Ports and Border Stations.