Barely two weeks after the Director of Maritime Services, Federal Ministry of Transport, Musa Nagogo signed the approval for the collection of Practitioners’ Operating Fees (POF), indications are rife that the approval did not follow due process.
According to a release signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Dr. Kayode Farinto, the said Nagogo who signed the document on the 15th of July, 2015 retired from the Federal Civil Service on the 24th of July 27, 2015 thus contravening the Civil Service law.
Farinto disclosed that the Civil Service law barred him from appending his signature on any document or be actively involved in anything three months to his disengagement from the service.
He noted that with this development, Nagogo was now swimming in troubled waters for allegedly signing the approval for collection of the controversial POF collection without due process as he had equally violated the law.
According to him, “if information reaching us is true then we will apply that he be Subpoena to come and tell the court why he had to hurriedly sign the approval because he retired from civil service on the 24th, July 2015. Meanwhile, he signed this letter on the 15th July 2015.
“More so, it was reliably gathered that, Nagogo ought not to have appended his signature on the document or be actively involved in anything three months to the end of his disengagement from the service.
“Although, it was alleged that he may have been financially induced to sign the letter authorizing the commencement of the POF collection, ANLCA would want him to appear before the court and explain the reasons behind his action which is against the Civil Service law”, Farinto said adding that,” we will not continue to allow such act in the industry”.
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