Onne Area 11 command of the Nigeria Customs Service has decorated 104 newly promoted officers, charged them on ethics, and improved trade facilitation.

Comptroller of the command, Baba Imam, gave the charge during the ceremony on Thursday at the command’s headquarters in Onne, Rivers.

Mr Imam urged the newly promoted officers to rise to the occasion by upholding the agency’s mandates to confront possible challenges in the line of duties on their new assignments.

“I urge you to, firstly, be guided by already existing principles in the conduct of your new responsibilities. This is to enable you to successfully achieve the needed results. You must be role models of integrity, ensuring that every principle guiding the agency is strictly upheld,” the command comptroller stated.

Mr Imam added, “Ensuring courtesy without loss of dignity, clear questioning of goods, careful examination amongst others, are key rules of the agency that must be upheld at all times.

“You must always ensure that given any assignments, trade facilitation is a mandatory requirement of the agency. Hence, you must ensure that all bureaucratic bottlenecks associated with clearance procedures are always eliminated.”

He also charged decorated officers to demonstrate more commitment to service, adding that more synergy with sister agencies, stakeholders and the public should be given utmost priority.

Mr Imam, however, advised officers who were not successful during the last promotion to seek solace in God and put in more effort to enable them to succeed in the next batch.

Four deputy comptrollers were promoted to comptrollers, two assistant comptrollers to deputies, and 24 chief superintendents were promoted to assistant comptrollers.

(NAN)