Nigeria: Sacked Customs Officer Stages Protest Over Failure of NCS to Reinstate Him

27 January 2020

Ibadan — A Marine Inspector of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bamiloye Temitope Abiodun, at the weekend in Ibadan, Oyo State, staged a one-man protest walk against what he described as his alleged wrongful dismissal by the NCS since 2016 and the refusal of the authorities of the service to reinstate him after investigation cleared and directed his reinstatement.

Bamiloye, who walked with placards from Iwo Road axis enroute Idi-Ape to Agodi area of the state capital city, said he was shocked that even the recommendation by the House of Representatives among other bodies to reinstate him after investigations were carried out on the allegations against him was jettisoned and disregarded by the management of the NCS, seven months after.

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