In bid to strengthen the ongoing passport reform process, the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), has approved the immediate reposting of 15 passport officers.
The acting Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs Caroline Adepoju, gave the approval in a statement issued by the Acting Public Relations Officer, Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, Kenneth Kure, on Thursday in Abuja.
Adepoju said that the NIS management was determined to upgrade passport administration both at home and in the foreign missions, according to a report by News Agency of Nigeria.
While assuring that the service would not go back on its avowed position to make passport offices across board purely service-oriented, revealed that only the best brains would henceforth be posted to sensitive places.
She named some of the affected passport offices as Alausa and Festac both in Lagos, as well as the ones in Edo, Anambra, Bayelsa, Kogi, Nassarawa, Plateau, Enugu, Abia, Kano, Taraba and Ondo, among others.
She said the service has adopted a new mantra, which is “service above self”.
“This is so because our people deserve nothing short of the best,” she said.
The posting order was signed by the Deputy Comptroller General (DCG) in charge of Human Resources, Mr Usman Babangida.