Hamman Bello

Hamman Bello Ahmed Kajoli, OFR (born 1944) 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.

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 77)
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

Background

Born and grow up in Kajoli Village, Jada local government area of Adamawa.

He began his early education at the Jada Primary School in 1956 to 1963, then he attends 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 were he obtained his B.A Hons and did his NYSC programme in 1978.[3]

Career

He enrolled in the Nigeria Customs Service as a Assistant Superintendent after graduating serving his NYSC in 1978. Kajoli had served and commands different branch; the Valuation Unit and Customs headquarters and Tin can Island, he was promoted to Assistant CG in 2005 and was the inspection officer of Inspectorate Unit at the Customs Headquarters till May 2008 were he was appointed Comptroller-General.[3]

Hamman Kajoli had left on untainted records of professionalism, achievement and policy plans that no other CG of customs had done for 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 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 authorisation 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 checkpoint outside the border security areas after forming a taskforce team who engage on anti smuggling patrol, that was to be a within 40 kilometers from and out of the nation's land frontier, and which the new taskforce team would be responsible for patrolling and fighting smugglers into the nation's.[5]

His tenure as CG versatile in the Harmonised System, it helped effectively in blocking leakages revenues and in recovery of lost ones.

Kajoli had won several award and commendations for commitments in the service before becoming the CG, internationally, locally and both in the World Customs Organisation, such awards amongst 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 Organisation 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 it kind in the town since the history of the community, they were known without electric distribution, the two customs officers improved life with good social infrastructures in the towns and villages in Jeda, Ganye and also the Toungo, not only electricity was brought to those communities but the Southern Senatorial zone enjoys portable waters and good accessible roads linking to many geographical destinations and some linking to the Cameroon border.[6]

The communities enjoyed the water projects, energy projects and empowerment programs and all was the monitoring, and engineering of Hamman. Also the coming of NITEL and Globacom (Glo network) which got intercept 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. Administrator. "FGN APPOINTS NEW COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF CUSTOMS – Nigeria Customs Service". Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  4. "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. "His life After Customs CG, Hamman Bello astute Statesman Developing Adamawa Communities". 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
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