CSO Faults Alleged Tenure Elongation In Quarantine Service

The African Leadership Strategy & Transparency Development Initiative (ALSTDI), a civil society organisation, has urged President Bola Tinubu to order an investigation into the tenure of the Director-General and Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Dr Vincent Isegbe.
 
 
A petition signed by the organisation’s Executive Director, Comrade Nelson Ossaieze, and addressed through Mr Muri Okunola, the Principal Private Secretary to the President, alleged alterations in provisions of the NAQS Establishment Act to extend the Director-General’s tenure.
 
 
The petition claimed that the law governing the agency was altered to create a basis for ext...