The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) on Friday decorated four new Deputy Comptrollers General of Immigration with the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Interior, Barr Georgina Ekeoma Ehuriah commending the NIS for the improvement in the quality of service delivery of the agency.
Barr Ehuriah the performance of the NIS has witnessed a quantum leap not only in service delivery but also in the area of revenue generation for the country noting the under the leadership of Comptroller Muhammad Babandede, the service has taken full advantages of ICT and other new technologies to achieve better performance of its mandate.
She however cautioned officers and men of the NIS to improve on the inter personal relationship of its clientele particularly Nigerians and foreigners alike saying, “It is important how you treat individuals you come in contact with because acceptance and impression matters and since actions of the immigration officer could be interpreted to represent Nigerian’s way of life.
Mrs Ehuriah warned personnel of the service to beware of mischief makers waiting to latch on the perceived shortcomings of government agencies as a result of laxity in the performance of their duties.
She urged the newly promoted DCGs to show extra commitment to the service and the nation because as the saying goes, ‘to whom much is given, much is expected.
The new Deputy Comptrollers of Immigration are DCG (Mrs) Chizoba Adaeze Dibi, DCG Julius Adadu Ogbu, DCG Uebari Saro John and DCG Idris Isah Jere.
Speaking at the occasion, the Comptroller General of Immigration, CGI Muhammad Babandede disclosed that the recent incident that occurred in the United Kingdom, where a Nigerian destroyed cars and other assets of the Nigerian Embassy because of passport issues was unfortunate noting that processing of passports was now easier with several technologies put in place.
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While noting that the passport of the Nigerian had been processed and was ready for over a month, the CGI said it was not the fault of immigration that he forgot his collection slip and other departments of the embassy had issues to clarify.
He however noted that the Nigerian collected his passport on Wednesday July 3, 2019.
Recalling that the journey to the promotion of the senior officers started last year after the conduct of competency assessment and due diligence carried out on each of the officers.
“Mr. President, by the powers conferred in him, found them worthy and in his magnanimity approved their appointment to the consolidated grade of DCGIS”
Babandede added, “This promotion has elevated you to the top management position of our great service and it is my prayer that it will spur you to further rededicating yourself to contributing objectively to decisions that will have positive impact on the continued development of the NIS and the nation as a whole”.
“Your appointment to the top management of the service therefore, will require you to contribute with innovative and dynamic ideas to achieving the statutory mandate of the service. With this elevation, your coordination, perspective and focus must be service centered towards national service that is non-partisan in line with patriotic and nationalistic ideas.”
Meanwhile, 150 personnel of Rapid Response Squad (RRS), who are specially trained armed officers to operate in troubled zones were on Friday deployed to some zones in the country where security challenges are rife especially banditry, kidnapping and others.
60 personnel of the RRS, hitherto deployed for special operations to man border boundaries especially during the 2019 general election were also demobilized by the CGI after commending the personnel for a job well done and commitment to their assigned tasks.
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