In a bid to deepen its ongoing passport reform process, the Acting Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Caroline Wuraola Adepoju, on Thursday approved the immediate redeployment of over a fifteen Passport Control Officers.
Spokesman of the Service, Kenneth Kure, who made the disclosure stated that the deployment is part of NIS management’s drive to upgrade the Passport administration both at home and in the foreign Missions.
The posting order which was signed on behalf of the acting CG by the Deputy Comptroller General (DCG), in charge of Human Resources, Mr Usman Babangida, listed the affected passport offices as Alausa and Festac both in Lagos, Edo, Anambra, Bayelsa, Kogi, Nassarawa, Plateau, Enugu, Abia, Kano, Taraba and Ondo, among others.
The acting CG maintained that only the best brains who have fully adopted the mantra of service above self would henceforth be posted to sensitive places.
“This is so because our people deserve nothing short of the best,” she said, enjoining all affected officers in the redeployment to bring their wealth of experience to their new offices and contribute to the improvement of service delivery.
