diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 76f5fb9494..95e061454d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ else
 endif
 
 # unconditionally built by the default Make target
-# TODO re-enable ncli_query if/when it works again
 TOOLS_CORE_CUSTOMCOMPILE := \
 	libnimbus_lc.a
 
diff --git a/ncli/ncli_query.nim b/ncli/ncli_query.nim
deleted file mode 100644
index 95526abadc..0000000000
--- a/ncli/ncli_query.nim
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-# beacon_chain
-# Copyright (c) 2020-2024 Status Research & Development GmbH
-# Licensed and distributed under either of
-#   * MIT license (license terms in the root directory or at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
-#   * Apache v2 license (license terms in the root directory or at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
-# at your option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms.
-
-import
-  std/[os, strutils],
-  confutils, json_serialization,
-  stew/byteutils,
-  ../beacon_chain/spec/[crypto, datatypes]
-
-type
-  QueryCmd* = enum
-    nimQuery
-    get
-
-  QueryConf = object
-    file* {.
-        defaultValue: ""
-        desc: "BeaconState ssz file"
-        name: "file" }: InputFile
-
-    case queryCmd* {.
-      defaultValue: nimQuery
-      command
-      desc: "Query the beacon node database and print the result" }: QueryCmd
-
-    of nimQuery:
-      nimQueryExpression* {.
-        argument
-        desc: "Nim expression to evaluate (using limited syntax)" }: string
-
-    of get:
-      getQueryPath* {.
-        argument
-        desc: "REST API path to evaluate" }: string
-
-
-let
-  config = QueryConf.load()
-
-case config.queryCmd
-of QueryCmd.nimQuery:
-  # TODO: This will handle a simple subset of Nim using
-  #       dot syntax and `[]` indexing.
-  echo "nim query: ", config.nimQueryExpression
-
-of QueryCmd.get:
-  let pathFragments = config.getQueryPath.split('/', maxsplit = 1)
-  let bytes =
-    case pathFragments[0]
-    of "genesis_state":
-      readFile(config.file.string).string.toBytes()
-    else:
-      stderr.write config.getQueryPath & " is not a valid path"
-      quit 1
-
-  # TODO nasty compile error here
-  # /home/arnetheduck/status/nim-beacon-chain/beacon_chain/ssz/navigator.nim(45, 50) template/generic instantiation of `getFieldBoundingOffsets` from here
-  # Error: internal error: (filename: "semtypes.nim", line: 1864, column: 21)
-  # let navigator = DynamicSszNavigator.init(bytes, BeaconState)
-
-  # echo navigator.navigatePath(pathFragments[1 .. ^1]).toJson