Customs Controller-General, Hammed Ali, Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, Others In Messy $3.1Billion E-Customs Project ScandalThe government previously awarded the project to Messrs Adani Mega Systems Limited/Webb Fontaine.
The Nigerian government has ratified the re-award of concession on the implementation of the Nigeria Customs Service Modernisation Project worth $3.1 billion to Messrs E. Customs HC Project Limited, a Chinese firm despite a restraining court order. The NCS Comptroller-General, Col. Hameed Ali had explained that the NCS would generate a whopping revenue of $176 billion over the next 20 years through the implementation of e-Customs project.According to Ali, the e-Customs concession project would ease the cost of doing business, boost revenue, enhance productivity and stop every arbitrariness in the service.He had said, “The $3.