{"id":62595,"date":"2025-03-11T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62595"},"modified":"2025-03-11T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:37:05","slug":"customs-probes-senior-officers-over-corruption-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/11\/customs-probes-senior-officers-over-corruption-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs Probes Senior Officers Over Corruption Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has launched a high-level investigation into allegations of corruption involving senior officers, vowing to hold those found guilty accountable.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a viral video exposing customs officers allegedly mistreating citizens, prompting the Seme Area Command to swiftly condemn the act and initiate a probe.<\/p>\n<p>The NCS reaffirmed its zero-tolerance stance on misconduct, pledging to uphold integrity and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Minister of Interior Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has inaugurated an independent panel to investigate corruption claims, including allegations against Kuje Custodial Centre head Iloafonsi Ikechukwu, accused of extorting and intimidating inmates.<\/p>\n<p>As scrutiny intensifies, the Customs Service and other agencies face mounting pressure to root out corruption and restore public trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has launched a high-level investigation into allegations of corruption involving senior officers, vowing to hold those found guilty accountable. This follows a viral video exposing customs officers allegedly mistreating citizens, prompting the Seme Area Command to swiftly condemn the act and initiate a probe. The NCS reaffirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62597,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62595\/revisions\/62597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}