The Nigerian Immigration Service has called on Nigerians who applied for International Passports and are yet to collect to visit the passports offices for collection as backlog has been cleared.
According to the Guardian, this was disclosed by the Immigration spokesman, Dotun Aridegbe a Deputy Comptroller of Immigration, while speaking with journalists noting that, “The days of passports backlog are now over.”
The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, had given the Nigeria Immigration Service two weeks to clear the over 200,000 pending passport applications before it.
The minister gave the directive when he met with the Acting Comptroller-General of NIS, Caroline Adepoju, immediately he assumed duty in Abuja.
Those who attended meeting include the Managing-Director, Iris Smart Technologies, Mr Yinka Fisher, the firm in charge of the production of Nigerian passport booklets.
The minister had said the order was in fulfillment of his promise to remove all bottlenecks in the acquisition of Nigerian passport and other immigration documents.
The Acting Comptroller General of Immigration, Mrs. Carol Adepoju Wura-Ola, had stimulated full-scale implementation team of NIS heirachy, which recorded tremendous success in order to fulfill the Minister’s order.
“Please help us tell applicants whose passports are lying in various passports offices across the country to go and collect their passports. We are working round the clock to make applicants happy.” He said.
