The
fight between the Senate and the comptroller General of Customs, Hameed
Ali over the later's refusal to wear uniform may have finally been
resolved by President Muhammadu Buhari.
President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari may have resolved the impasse between
the Senate and the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim
Ali (retd), with specific warning to Ali and all other of his appointees
to avoid overheating the polity by creating avoidable friction between
the Executive and the Legislature.
According to Vanguard, Buhari’s intervention came against the
backdrop of Col. Ali’s defiance to appear before the Senate and explain
why the new duty policy on vehicles imported into the country through
land borders should not be reversed.
Sensing danger ahead of Ali’s planned refusal to appear before the
Senate in Customs uniform today, President Buhari, it was learned,
called for a meeting between Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, to discuss
and resolve the impasse.
A source told Vanguard that President Buhari was particularly not
comfortable with the language of some of his appointees and admonished
that the face-off was not necessary.
According to the source, President Buhari particularly told the
Customs boss that whoever loves him will not at this point in time
orchestrate any scuttle between the Executive and the Legislature.
Following the intervention of the President, Ali, yesterday rushed to the Senate to have discussions with Saraki.
A source told Vanguard that the Customs boss arrived the office of
the Senate leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, at 5.30 p.m, and was,
thereafter, ushered into the office of the Senate President at 6 p.m.
According to the source, he was led to these offices by the Senior
Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly ( Senate),
Senator Ita Enang, and the Chairman, Senate Committee on Customs, Excise
and Tariff, Senator Hope Uzodinma, PDP, Imo West.
Col. Ali was said to have told the Senate president that he regretted not honouring the Senate’s invitation, citing bereavement.
The meeting at the Senate President’s office ended at 6.38 pm,
while the Customs boss finally left at exactly 6.49, in company of
Senator Enang and Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya, APC, Kano South.
It was not immediately clear what they discussed at the meeting but
a source said the President’s intervention may prompt a reversal of the
policy that had set the people against Nigeria Customs Service, NCS.
Earlier at plenary, before the President’s intervention, the Senate
had insisted that the Customs C-G appear today in uniform, and
dismissed the letter written by him to ask for deferment, citing
management meeting as excuse.
Speaking with journalists later, after plenary, Senate spokesman,
Abdullahi Sabi, said senators would not support any policy that would
infringe on the welfare and security of Nigerians.
He said: “The subject matter for which we are summoning is not
dire but critical to Nigerians. We stand by the Nigerian people. The
primary purpose of government is the welfare and security of Nigerians.
“Any policy that infringes on the welfare and security of
Nigerians is not a policy. The Nigerian Customs is being run in a way
that Nigerians will pay for their inefficiencies.
“You have done everything to buy a vehicle to give comfort to
your family and somebody comes and tells you this – where is your
customs duty? This is why the Senate is not in support of the policy.
It’s anti-people.”
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