The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd) has been ‘hit’ below the belt by the Nigerian Senate which asked him to go ‘home fetch his uniform’.
This development is the height of the controversy between the Senate and Ali over how he should appear before the legislators and this has been dragging on for almost two weeks.
The customs boss has thus, been asked to come back on Wednesday, next week in uniform after he eventually met with the Senators on Thursday.
The lawmakers said as the chief executive of the security outfit, Ali should lead by example.
The Customs boss had appeared before the Senate on Thursday, after he failed to show up on Wednesday as initially scheduled. He also came in mufti despite the insistence of the lawmakers that he should appear before it in uniform.
His failure to show up had angered the lawmakers, and they compelled him to appear today (Thursday).
When asked by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu why he failed to appear before the lawmakers in uniform as requested, Ali said the Senate did not state in its last letter to him that he should appear in uniform.
Your letter didn’t say I should appear in uniform, Ali tells Senate
Ekweremadu, however, said the last letter only served as a reminder of the first letter to him, in which he was asked to come in uniform.
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