Eight employees of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) were discharged from their jobs, and 18 others received sanctions for a variety of insubordination-related offenses, employment racketeering, and other corrupt behavior.
In a statement released on Friday, November 1, the Comptroller General, Isah Idris, also said that 100 employees of Lagos’ Muritala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) had been immediately dispatched elsewhere.
The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), which noted that the behavior of the personnel has consistently remained grossly unfitting and unacceptable as members of the service, approved the decision, according to a statement signed by Kenneth Kure, NIS spokesperson.
“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 II (ASI2) and three rank and file were summarily dismissed from the service.
“Furthermore, one other chief superintendent of immigration was ordered to proceed on compulsory retirement while nine other personnel were demoted in rank.
“They include one assistant superintendent of immigration II (ASI2) who has been demoted to the rank of inspector of immigration, two inspectors who have been reduced in rank to assistant inspectors and six other junior personnel who have been ordered to lose their current ranks.
“Meanwhile, nine other personnel comprising one assistant superintendent of immigration II (ASI2) and eight junior personnel were issued warning letters just as six personnel were discharged and acquitted from all the allegations brought against them,” the statement reads.
