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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. ADVERTISEMENT 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...
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 Inspec...
Punch Newspapers Sections Published 25 May 2021 The House of Representatives’ Committee on Customs and Excise, on Monday, grilled top officials of the Federal Government over the abandonment of 22 cargo scanners that cost taxpayers $120m at the seaports, airports and land borders. The Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, while declaring the hearing open, noted that the investigation was to unravel the circumstances surrounding the sudden failure of scanners after the private partners handed over the facilities to Nigerian government. Gbajabiamila, who was represented by Chairman of the ...