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By Nuhu Adamu
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) is the government agency mandated to control persons entering or leaving Nigeria, issuance travel documents to bonafide Nigerians at home and abroad, issuance of resident permit to foreigners in Nigeria, border surveillance and patrol and the enforcement of the above laws and regulations rest on its oars.
Regrettably, since the advent of the incumbent administration under the leadership of Isah Jere Idris, who has been globetrotting from one county to another, the Nigeria Immigration Service has been bedeviled with poor leadership, cronyism, official high-handedness, passport racketeering and poor border surveillance/patrol leading to the influx of illegal aliens exacerbating the poor security situation in Nigeria.
In a press statement made available to journalists in Lagos by a pressure group – Movement for Transparency in Public Service and signed by the national president, Otunba Kunle Karmurdeen and secretary Mallam Isah Mohammed, the duo lamented that the Jere-led NIS has negated the core values of the organization by entrenching cronyism saying that “that the Acting CG of the Nigeria Immigration Service has been entrenching his kinsmen and cronies in juicy positions at the detriment of quality service delivery which was the hall mark of the NIS before he came on board as the helmsman not long ago” and the group is wondering why the President will extend the tenure of a man who has attained retirement age of 60 years.
Speaking further, the group chided the poor management regime of Isah Jere Idris noting that it has engendered low morale into the service. The group added that the spirit of oneness and discipline peculiar to the paramilitary as taken flight in the NIS thereby reducing productivity and revenue generation of the NIS is on a downward slope.
In the meantime, the Jere-led administration has worsened the security situation in the country due to its inability to deploy the modern equipment acquired by the previous administration to enhance border surveillance and control.
The group decried the scarcity of passport and other travel documents which it attributed to the evil machinations of a syndicate oiled by the acting CG for his personal gain and self aggrandisement.
“We call on the President to save the NIS from further plunder, degeneration and extinction by immediately relieving the NIS Acting CG of his appointment as there are more competent hands in its hierarchy”, the group stated.
