Hameed Ibrahim Ali: Customs Chief

The Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), retired Colonel Hameed Ali, says the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government has derailed halfway into its tenure as it has failed to adhere to its core values, vision and mission.

Daily Trusts reports that Ali spoke on Friday at the commissioning and official opening of the national headquarters of the Buhari Support Organisations (BSO) in Abuja.

While he blamed the preponderance of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the President Muhammed Buhari government for the situation, he also noted that many of those who worked for the emergence of the administration are yet to be fully appreciated.

The Customs CG therefore advocated that BSO must get back to the trenches and champion the new battle for good governance.

“We must do so because we want to save our name and the name of the president for what he is doing. Our president is on course and all we need is to ensure that we support him,” Ali said, adding

“We have no problem with our President because he is on course. But I must confess here that we have been infused by people who were not part of this journey and these people are the ones that call the shots today,” he also said.

“It is my belief that those of us who have been in the trenches all these years to get good governance will surely be sleeping with belly ache every day, especially in the recent past. Every day, when you wake up, there is a story that makes you cringe. We cannot sit back and allow things to happen the way they are happening. “

“We are the ones that will be asked to account for what happened. Are we willing to face Nigerians and tell them that we have failed? I think this is the time for us to come together, create a system to fight back and take back government in our hands and ensure that we deliver.”