The Nigeria Customs Services (NCS) has landed itself in a scandal for failure to pay eight years salary arrears, benefits and other entitlements estimated at over N50million to one of its officials, Comptroller Abdullahi Bello Gusau.

According to documents made available to journalists in Kaduna on Thursday, Gusau had sometime in 2010 through his counsel, Barr. G.T. Afolabi challenged the NCS at the Federal High Court in Abuja over his unlawful premature retirement from the service.

Barr. Afolabi of Olugbenga and Associates had dragged the matter to the Appeal court and obtained a verdict in favour of the appellant in July 2014. The case was in April7,2017  scaled up to the Supreme Court which affirmed the judgment of the Appellate Court, ordering that Comptroller Gusau be reinstated to the Service and all his entitlements settled.

The Supreme Court ruling which was handed down by Justice Ejembi Eko in Abuja declared that the purported retirement of the plaintiff by the second defendant (NCS) was unlawful, malicious, irregular and a flagrant violation of the plaintiff’s right of employment until the mandatory retirement age.

Gusau now alleges that the NCS was yet to formally serve him with a reinstatement letter and a letter of promotion as well as pay him salary areas, emoluments and other entitlements which he estimated at over N50 million.