Comptroller Ahmadu Bello Shuaibu is among the newly promoted Senior Customs Officers. He speaks on behalf of his colleagues. He is a gentle man, a team player, passionate, gallant, brilliant officer and a goal getter. A man of humility and godliness, lover of excellence in everything he does. He is a competent officer who doesn’t discriminate on the basis of religion and tribe.
A multiple-award winner based on his dedication and commitment to service. In fact, in all the places he served, he left an impeccable record of service and legacy wherever he worked for the younger officers to emulate.
He has received numerous awards including; 2023 Justice and Honesty Award, the Nigerian Customs Christian Fellowship, (NCCF), National Coordinator Award, although he is a Muslim and an Alhaji but supports Christianity and his Islam respectively.
In his speech at the recent Capacity Building programme organised by CGC of Customs Bashir Adewale Adeniyi for newly promoted Customs, he expressed gratitude to CGC and assured him of support.
According to him, “I stand here to present a vote of thanks on behalf of my colleagues who are promoted to the position of Comptroller. We are grateful to God almighty, we are grateful to the Comptroller General of Customs. We are grateful to the management for this promotion. We want to assure the CGC that as a group, we are here, ready to support you to actualize your mandate, our mandate of Nigeria Customs, we will continue to pray for you, we should continue to make policies and decisions that we must achieve our target this year.
“It is achievable, so wherever we find ourselves, we shall deliver the lectures you gave us today, we came here loaded, we are leaving here overloaded
“We that are promoted are more than ever before ready to ensure that we will deliver on his mandate. We came here with various degrees of experience and knowledge and by the time we are leaving here, we should be loaded with additional knowledge and experiences, be that as it should be, experience is different from knowledge, so we shall bring our experience to bear on our mandate, all the course outlines, all the resource persons that we engaged yesterday, were so resourceful and interesting, a beautiful day, but today, the Comptroller General has further broadened our horizon. Things that are hidden he brought them out, we are happy for that, and we assure him that by the grace of God, we are going to do our best to ensure that the mandate to Nigerian Customs Service is achieved.
“Comptroller General of Customs is on the right policy as an insider that understands completely what Customs is all about. His three point agenda, Consolidation, Collaboration and Innovation.
“That Consolidation, others will come and start afresh, he is not starting afresh, immediately he came on board, he set the ball rolling. So we are on the same page with him. The promotion comes with additional responsibility, we are not running away from that fact that is why, I mentioned it, if we were to measure all mode the new comptrollers undergoing this retreat, you will see that we have been reinvigorated, and revitalized and we are so young and youthful and ready to proceed on new assignment.
In his speech with TVC , he emphasized more on the three point agenda of Consolidation, Collaboration and Innovation, stating that more than 70% of the already target of the Nigerian Customs Service is gotten from Lagos Zone.
“We are not unmindful or unaware of that fact, that is why we are very happy with this promotion, that will spur us to do more to ensure all leakages are blocked, I invite all stockholders to do honest declaration, and smugglers to have a change of mind,” he stated.