NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SACKS EIGHT PERSONNEL, REDEPLOYS 100 OTHERS

The development is contained in a statement issued on Thursday morning and signed by Kenneth Kure, a Chief Supreintendent of Immigration at the Public Relations Unit of the NIS.

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced the dismissal of eight of its personnel from the service while 18 others have also been sanctioned for various offences ranging from indiscipline to employment racketeering and other forms of corrupt practices.

This is as a total of 100 of the organisation’s officers and men hitherto attached to the Muritala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos have been redeployed to other units and departments, pending the determination of a recent allegation of bribe against them by a traveller.

The development is contained in a statement issued on Friday morning and signed by Kenneth Kure, a Chief Supreintendent of Immigration at the Public Relations Unit of the NIS.

Mr Kure signed the statement on behalf of the Comptroller General, Isah Idris.

According to the statement, the decision was taken following the approval granted by the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), which reportedly noted that “the conducts of the personnel have remained grossly unbecoming and unacceptable as members of the Service.”

Road to sanction

NIS said the dismissal of the eight concerned officers followed the due process and laid down procedures backed by the law governing the agency.

It said a total of 35 personnel had earlier been presented before both the Senior Disciplinary Committee (SDC) and Orderly Room Trial (ORT) processes “to ascertain their level of culpability in the various allegations of offences against discipline ranging from employment racketeering, sharp practices, dishonest conducts, absent from duty without official leave (AWOL) among others, as preferred against them.”

The statement reads in part: “After exhaustive deliberations by the committees, eight personnel comprising one Chief Superintendent of Immigration (CSI), two Deputy Superintendents of Immigration (DSI), two Assistant Superintendents of Immigration.