POP: 81 CADETS GRADUATE FROM CUSTOMS TRAINING COLLEGE
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By Aishat Momoh. O.
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The Nigeria Customs Training College, Ikeja, Lagos, has graduated 81 cadets officers who have successfully completed their six months of intense training exercise.
At the beautiful passing-out-parade on Friday, the Acting Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, told the press that his administration will not leave any stones unturned in terms of creating a right environment for the officers to regenerate themselves by relearning and getting themselves adapted to the working environment in which they find themselves while charging them with instilling the culture of safe firearm handling.
CG Adeniyi also stated that the graduating cadets will be recalled back for a refreshers training programme every five years, in order to expose them to a world of international trade. This exposure according to the Comptroller-General will also include those officers who are already in the service before now.
He said, “As we secure approval for this process, we will be bringing them back up here for training. Like I said, even those who are already in the service, we would have to expose them to what we call refresher training program, so that they get updated and keep up with trends that are working in a very dynamic world of international trades.”
“I must say that the future is indeed very challenging, in view of these time and period when they are joining the fold of Nigeria Customs service (NCS), we need to gather all the revenue that we need for economic development.
All these pose great challenges that will present them opportunities to demonstrate what they have learnt in the past six months here in this college. I believe that the future is very bright for them and my administration will not leave any stone unturned in terms of creating the right environment for them to regenerate themselves, to relearn and to get themselves adapted to a working environment in which they will find themselves.”
He noted that a curriculum has been worked out by Nigeria Customs to ensure that this officers come back and get themselves acquainted with the new development by learning how customs operations will adapt to those changes.
He added that it was discovered that, the older generation of customs didn’t have the opportunity to come back to the college or get back into any formalized arrangements where changes in dynamics of the complexities of international trade, innovations and advanced technology unlike the newly graduated officers.
“There are new technologies, innovations, apart from the traditional methods that we learnt in this places. There’s Geo-Special intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and there is risk management. These are all new things that this officers can learn in the course of their career as they grow on the Job,” he said.
He however, urged them to be good ambassadors of the Service — by way of protecting its integrity and reputation while discharging their constitutional duties.
In his remarks, the Commandant of the Customs Training College, Comptroller Rasheed Adahunse, said, “These Junior Officers graduating today were found suitable in learning and character. It is pertinent to state that this Basic Course 1/2023 commenced on the 22nd of March, 2023, and the skills displayed by the graduands were mastered within this short period along with academic activities.
“The training graduates covered topics on Enforcement, Revenue, Valuation, Export and Import Procedures, Passenger Selection, Parcel Post, Administration, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Civil Relations and many other courses, to mention but a few. Examinations were conducted to ascertain their level of assimilation and were also graded.”
The Commandant, who described the regimentation of the 2023 General Duty Staff as a success, also said that “to master the drills and excel in academic activities within six months is an excellent achievement on the part of the committed and dedicated trainers as well as the graduands.
“I would like to show my sincere gratitude to the Ag. CGC for creating time to attend this great occasion despite his tight schedules and for providing all the necessary approvals in good time, leading to the success of this exercise,” he concluded.
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