SAN FRANCISCO, March 21, (THEWILL) – The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali, has revealed that he will not honour the invitation of the Senate on Wednesday.
Ali made this known on Tuesday when he spoke with State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, revealing that the case was in court.
He insisted that it would amount to contempt of court for him to appear before the upper chamber of the National Assembly as it had demanded.
“The case is in court already,” he said.
“Somebody has sued us. I have gotten my writ of summons and they said status quo ante should remain; which means nothing should be done until the court makes a pronouncement.”
“A private individual sued all of us; he wants an interpretation of the section that is in contention.”
“I don’t want to talk so that I am not held in contempt of court.”
THEWILL recalls that the Senate had summoned Ali to re-appear before it having turned him back for failing to appear before the Senate for not appearing in Customs uniform as directed by the senators.
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