By Daud Olatunji

ABEOKUTA—The Ogun State House of Assembly has summoned the State Comptroller of Nigeria Customs Service, Hassan Gangua, to appear before it over the death of a commercial driver said to have been caused by officers of the service.

The Speaker of the Assembly,  Suraj Adekunbi, at the plenary directed that an invitation be forwarded to the State Comptroller to appear before it to aid their investigation of the remote and immediate causes of the unfortunate events resulting in death of innocent citizens.

In the same vein, the State Council of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture has called for probe of the killing of the commercial driver by men of Nigeria Customs Service in the state.

Rising from the meeting of the council of five city chambers which consist of Abeokuta, Ota, Yewa, Remo and Ijebu chambers, held in Abeokuta, President of OgunCCIMA, Mrs. Adeola Adebutu said the chambers described it as illegal.

At the Assembly, Adekunbi  condemned the incessant killing of innocent citizens of the State by men of the Nigerian Customs Service describing it as a dastardly act.

He said that the agency needed to put human face and adopt discretionary power in carrying out its operations, warning that government would not watch her citizens be killed all in the name of pursuing smugglers.

The lawmakers in their various submissions during the plenary held yesterday lamented the alleged killing of the driver, Saubana Koleoso, whose vehicle while being pursued and allegedly shot at by Customs men swerved and collided with an on-coming car, causing the death of two others at Kobape area along Sagamu-Siun Expressway last week.

Adebutu, while addressing newsmen after the meeting, said it would join the state government to demand for details and transparent investigation into the killing.

While reacting to the activities of the men of NCS in the state, the Chambers said it does not support any form of economic sabotage, but, it condemns what it called reckless act by men of the NCS .