Kazeem Owoseni
The Nigeria Immigration Services on Thursday, announced the approval of immediate redeployment of 15 passport officers in a bid to strengthen the ongoing passport reform process.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Acting Public Relations Officer of the Service, Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, Kenneth Kure, on Thursday, July 20, 2023.
According to the Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mrs Caroline Adepoju, who approved the posting, the NIS management is determined to upgrade the passport administration both at home and abroad.
Mrs Adepoju listed some of the affected passport offices as Alausa and Festac in Lagos, as well as Kano, Taraba, Plateau, Kogi, Nassarawa, Enugu, Bayelsa, Abia and Ondo states respectively.
The Acting CG, however,r said only the best-qualified officers who have fully adopted the mantra of priotises service to self, will be posted in sensitive places, noting that the service would renege in its promise to make passport offices pureservice-orientedted, across the board.
“This is so because our people deserve nothing short of the best,” she said.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the posting order was signed by the Deputy Comptroller General (DCG), in charge of Human Resources, Mr Usman Babangida
