Hamman Bello

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Hamman Ahmed
Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service
In office
27th May 2008 – January 14, 2009
Preceded byJacob Gyang Buba
Succeeded byBernard Shaw Nwadialo
Personal details
Born1944 (1944) (age 78)
Jada, Adamawa State
EducationAhmadu Bello University
AwardsService Medal Award, Maritime Industry Living of the Week
Military service
Allegiance Nigeria
Branch/serviceNigeria Customs Service
Years of service1979–2009
RankComptroller-General

Hamman Bello Ahmed Kojoli, OFR (born Jan 3rd 1949) is a retired customs officer, philanthropist and elder statesman. He served as the comptroller general of the Nigeria Customs Service from 2008 to 2009 by Umaru Yar Adua.[1][2] He was replaced by B. E. Nwadialo, prior to becoming the CG of customs, he was the Assistant CG of Customs at the Abuja headquarters.

Background[]

Hamman Bello Ahmed Kojoli was born and raised in Kajoli Village, Jada local government area of Adamawa.

He began his early education at the Jada Primary School from 1956 to 1963, then attended the Government Secondary School Ganye for his secondary education from 1965 to 1969. He obtained his WASC at the Government Secondary School Bauchi in 1970. He attended the Ahmadu Bello University in 1977, where he obtained his B.A Hons and did his NYSC program in 1978.[3]

Career[]

He joined the Nigerian Customs Service as an Assistant Superintendent after graduating and serving his NYSC in 1978. Hamman had served and commanded different branches; the Valuation Unit, Customs headquarters, and Tin can Island, he was then promoted as Assistant CG in 2005 and was the inspection officer of the Inspectorate Unit at the Customs Headquarters till May 2008, after which he was appointed Comptroller-General.[3]

Hamman Kajoli had left an untainted record of professionalism, achievement and policy plan that no other CG of customs had done in just ten months as CG. Kajoli still remains the CG, who was drafted to the Port of Apapa, at the time of container flying to arrest the situation, he led 30 officers, amongst which one was retired Deputy CG Julius Nwagwu to bring the situation in Apapa Port under control, during the time he had reestablished legal warehousing, proper accounting and general enforcement procedures, and customs units without proper authorization operations in ports were identified for appropriate sanction.[4]

As comptroller[]

In 2008 when he became the boss, he banned the Nigeria Customs officials from setting checkpoints outside the border security areas, before which he formed a task force team who engaged in an anti-smuggling patrol, that was to be within 40 kilometres from and out of the nation's land frontier, of which the new task force team would be responsible for patrolling and fighting smugglers into the nation's.[5]

His tenure as CG has been versatile in the Harmonized System, it helped ineffective blocking of leaking revenues and in the recovery of lost ones.

Hamman Kajoli won several awards and commendations for commitments in the service before becoming the CG, internationally, locally and both in the World Customs Organisation. Such awards include: Certificate of Commendation from the Minister of Finance, Service Medal Award for the recovering of Customs Duty for a tune of more than N364,000,000.00 at the annual Comptroller General of Customs Conference in Ibadan 2000, Swede Control Intertek- Preshipment Inspection Companies, Commendation Letter from Societe Generale Du Surveillance, Commendation from the World Customs Organization on the interpretation and application of the Harmonized System Nomenclature and the Maritime Industry Living of the Week: presented by the Comptroller-General Customs as commendation letter.[4]

Other contributions[]

Hamman together with Sanusi Muhammad, a retired customs officer under the able leadership, introduced Rural Electricity Board to Jeda and the first of its kind in the town since the history of the community. They were known without the electric distribution, the two customs officers improved life with good social infrastructures in the towns and villages of Jeda, Ganye and also Toungo, not only electricity was brought to those communities but, the Southern Senatorial zone enjoys portable waters and good access roads linking to the many geographical destinations and some linking to the Cameroon border.[6]

The communities enjoyed the water projects, energy projects and empowerment programs and all this was monitored, and engineered by Hamman. Also the coming of NITEL and Globacom (Glo network) which got intercepted at the town in 2005, all courtesy of Hamman Kajoli.[6]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Aminu Aderinokum, Ayodele Kunle (28 May 2008). "Nigeria: Hamman Ahmed now comptroller general of customs". Allafrica. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Nigeria Customs: "I Gave the Current CG, Ali, What He Required to Suc". businessandmaritimewestafrica. 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  3. ^ a b Administrator. "FGN APPOINTS NEW COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF CUSTOMS – Nigeria Customs Service". Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  4. ^ a b "Hamman Bello Ahmed, OFR: Maritime Living LEGEND of the Week". Shipping World News Magazine. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  5. ^ Abubakar, Shehu (31 December 2008). "Nigeria: Customs Ban Checkpoints". Akkafrica. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  6. ^ a b "His life After Customs CG, Hamman Bello astute Statesman Developing Adamawa Communities". 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2020-11-08.

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