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The Senate has requested Comptroller-General of Customs Adewale Adeniyi to punish any of the company’s personnel discovered responsible of misusing firearms on the nation’s borders.

This was even because it beneficial the set up of long-range cameras at border checkpoints throughout the nation to examine the actions of smugglers of prohibited merchandise into the nation.

The higher legislative chamber additionally beneficial the usage of scanner tools in any respect land borders and seaports to checkmate the smuggling of prohibited merchandise into the nation.

These had been a part of the suggestions adopted within the studies of an advert hoc committee established in July to probe the alleged misuse of firearms by the officers and males of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).

The chairman of the advert hoc committee, Senator Francis Fadahunsi (APC, Osun East), offered the report on behalf of different members on the plenary on Tuesday.

Senator Fadahunsi confused: “The Federal Government should direct the Comptroller General of Customs and other heads of security to reduce the multiple checkpoints mounted in the border communities. It will aid the free flow of goods in and around the communities to the main town.

“Comptroller-General of Customs should investigate and review the border activities. Officers found guilty of the abuse of firearms should be punished.

“The federal government should provide basic amenities for people in the affected border communities.”

The committee additionally beneficial that there needs to be recruitment of youths from border communities into the service.

It added that Customs ought to undertake the utilization of contemporary applied sciences to be able to make their personnel work successfully in response to international greatest practices.

The committee additionally urged the NCS to make use of helicopters to observe the actions of the smugglers and the utilization of velocity boats by its officers in riverine border communities.

According to the report, auctioning of seized objects needs to be completed occasionally to keep away from being liquidated.

The committee additional blamed the comptroller of customs in Idiroko, Katsina, and Kaduna for failing to determine mutual relationships between their space instructions and host communities.

“The Comptroller General of Customs should redeploy the comptrollers of Kastina/Kaduna and Idiroko area commands and appoint replacements who should establish a good community engagement programme. This will create a healthy relationship, make the Customs realise its mandate without being insensitive to the yearnings and aspirations of the people of the communities in the State,” the committee beneficial.

The committee made additional suggestions that included: “The federal government should lift the 20-km ban on sales of petroleum products in border communities. This policy is a threat to peaceful coexistence, a denial of the people’s right to belong to the larger Nigerian society and a serious cause of hardship in these communities.”