Nigeria Immigration Increases Passport Production Capacity – Comptroller-General Says

The Comptroller-Common, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede, says the service has elevated its manufacturing capability to beat the Might 31 deadline set to clear backlog of passport purposes.

Babandede introduced this whereas briefing newsmen on the NIS passport reforms and recruitment train on Thursday in Abuja.

He mentioned that the passport manufacturing centres throughout the nation had been working around the clock to clear the backlogs earlier than the graduation of the brand new passport regime on June 1.

NIS boss additionally gave assurance that the service had sufficient booklet, including {that a} whole of 23,903 passports had been at present awaiting assortment by the candidates.

In line with him, greater than 35,000 passports had been produced in the previous couple of days, with about 22,840 collected, 23,903 not collected and 28 broken.

He, nevertheless, urged all candidates to be on alert as textual content messages had been being despatched to their registered telephone numbers, including that people who had turned off their Don’t Disturb button on their telephones to reactivate.

Babandede assured candidates that the greater than 100,000 pending purposes could be attended to earlier than the deadline of Might 31.

“The foremost problem we have now now is just not booklet however manufacturing capability and we have now added two manufacturing strains to Ikoyi and Ibadan centres,” he mentioned.

He additionally mentioned that each one passport assortment centres could be opened from 6:00 a.m. to six:00 p.m. each day for candidates.

He warned that the any officer concerned in passports racketeering could be handled going ahead, including that the erring officers had been partly accountable for the uncollected passports.

On recruitment, NIS boss mentioned that the present recruitment train was one of the best ever in immigration and warranted all candidates of transparency and equity.

He mentioned that the train was being carried out within the six geopolitical zones of the nation to take 4,000 candidates out of 6,005 candidates invited.

He added that the service had been honest by making certain federal character precept.