Faith Ojeifo Takes Over As Kwara Customs Chief, Seeks Support From Officers, Stakeholders

Comptroller Faith Mathew Ojeifo has taken over as head of the Kwara Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service.

Spokesman for the Command , Chado Zakari  noted in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com  that this was sequel  to  the outgoing Controller, Mr.  Kehinde Ilesanmi’s retirement from  the Nigeria Customs Service.

‘The Comptroller General of Customs, CGC Bashir Wale Adeniyi MFR , has approved the deployment of Compt. FM Ojeifo as the new Customs Area Controller to oversee the affairs of the Command.

Comptroller Ojeifo from the  Customs Headquarters, Abuja takes over  as the new head  of the Command from Compt. Kehinde Ilesanmi who has just proceeded on his retirement after attaining the age of sixty (60) years.

During the short handing over ceremony held at the Command Headquarters, Ilorin, Kwara state, on Tuesday, 20th February, 2024, the outgoing controller, Compt. Ilesanmi urged officers and men of the Command to extend the same support and cooperation he had enjoyed to his successor’ the statement said.

In his farewell address, Ilesanmi  thanked the Comptroller General of Customs and the management team for the opportunity to serve as Area Controller.

He urged officers to give the incoming controller maximum support to effectively discharge the new responsibility bestowed upon him while praying  for God’s guidance and intervention for a successful tenure.

Compt. FM Ojeifo told the management team that his intention is to consolidate on the achievements of his immediate predecessor and others  submitting that he would need nothing less than 300% support for him to succeed.

‘We have to intensify our efforts to surpass the Command revenue target for the year 2024 and to equally suppress smuggling activities to the barest minimum’ he said.

 The new Customs Area Controller implored officers to imbibe a culture of transparency and professionalism while discharging their responsibilities.

He also warned that any act of negative conduct on the part of the officers would not be tolerated and promised to work assiduously towards consolidating the feat attained by his predecessor.

Ojeifo also solicited for cooperation, support, and collaboration with  sister security agencies, traditional rulers, religious leaders, and other relevant stakeholders while expressing readiness to partner with them with regard to sharing of  intelligence gathering for combating smuggling activities and other trans-border crimes-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you