Justify Promotions With
Justify Promotions With Honesty, Hardwork, Saidu Tells
Officers
The Customs Area Controller of Area II Command, Onne Port Rivers
State, Comptroller Aliyu Galadima Saidu has asked newly promoted
officers in the command to justify their elevations with honesty
and hardwork.
Saidu who gave this charge while decorating newly promoted
officers in his Command with their new ranks , said promotions are
clarion calls to higher responsibilities.
An elated Comptroller Saidu stated that as expectations are high
from promoted officers and all operatives of the command.
“From this moment you should also see yourselves as role models
to your subordinates , leading by example and keeping to directives
as contained in the Customs and Excise Management Act including
other books of instruction.
“The Controller General and Nigeria demands more dedication to
duty from us and the motivation of promotion should spur us to do
more while also encouraging or stakeholders to be compliant at all
times ” Saidu said at the brief decoration ceremony.
For those that are yet to be promoted, the Controller urged them
to be unrelenting in steadfastness as other opportunities for
promotion will come their way.
“I am optimistic we will have to come together and celebrate
again because some other officers will also be promoted
“.Continuing, he stressed that with the caliber of officers here
“the revenue target and goals of 2019, Will be achieved in few
weeks time. Don’t wait till the end of the year “Saidu
admonished.
In his good-will message, the commandant Nigeria Navy school
Onne, Commodore A. Olodudu also enjoined the newly promoted
officers to see their promotion as divine, stating that “Promotion
comes from God through the Headquarters”
He added that not everybody has the opportunity to be promoted
but those who should see it as a privilege and owe a lot of
responsibilities to the country as according to him,”to whom much
is given, much is expected”
While urging them to use their promotion to impact positively on
their families. He however, advised those not promoted not to down
tools but to see it as motivation. “Those not opportuned today,
don’t down tools, if not now, it will be later. Let it motivate you
to put more than what you have put before, celebrate those we are
celebrating today and work as one body to make Nigeria great ”
On her part, the Comptroller immigration, Onne E. I. B. Inok
charged the officers to be more humane and show more understanding
to the people they left behind. Insisting that all the officers
promoted should be more productive and hardworking and always show
gratitude to the Customs leadership for what it has done.
Responding on behalf of the newly promoted officers, Deputy
Comptroller Timinadi Bomodi, expressed happiness for the honour
done them while promising the Nigerian Customs Service especially
the Comptroller General of customs Col. Hammed Ibrahim Ali (retd
)of their unalloyed commitment and “to match expectations with hard
work”
Recall that Nigerian customs Service had recently announced
promotion of officers including one Deputy comptroller General of
Customs , three Assistant Comptrollers General of Customs and the
promotion of 2,508 officers to various ranks out of which 19 of
them were promoted at the Customs Area II Command Onne.
Ifeoma Onuigbo Ojekwu
Customs Public Relations Officer
Portharcourt Area ll Command, Onne Port