BY GODWIN OBI
Officers of the Nigerian Customs Service have been asked to rededicate themselves to combating smuggling and other criminal activities for national development.
Kanwan Katsina, District Head of Ketare, Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara who retired as Comptroller of Customs stated this when a team of officers from the Public Relations unit of the Customs headquarters visited him in his palace.
The team led by superintendent of Customs, Abdullahi Mai Wada were in Katsina for an interview with Kanwan Katsina for their documentary.
Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara stressed the need for customs officials to intensify efforts in Revenue Generation needed by government to reduce budget deficit and infrastructural development of the country.
The former customs comptroller had once served as public relations officer of Apapa and Tincan Island sports command in Lagos where he discharge his duties effectively and attributed his success to his work in the newsroom of Radio Nigeria Kaduna in nineteen seventy-five before proceeding to Amadu Bello University Zaria for further education.
Earlier, the team leader, Superintendant of Customs, Abdullahi Maiwada explained that they were in Katsina to interview the Kanwan Katsina on his experience while with the Customs and his life after retirement.
Recall that Bello fondly called U.k Bello when he was in active service was an esteemed fashionable brand, both as a public relations officer and as a controller of customs.
Bello was exceptionally so diligent an officer who endeared himself to the maritime press due essentially to his matchless public relational capabilities, which he readily deployed in his ever unwavering fortitude to sustain good mirror image of the Nigeria Customs Service.
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