Razaq Bamidele
Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has instructed all the passports offices across the country to give priorities to the aged and nursing mothers in the issuance of passport.
The instruction, the NIS Boss said was with immediate effect.
Babandede gave the instruction Wednesday during an unscheduled visit to the Headquarters of the NIS Passport Data processing Centre and Passport Office, Gwagwalada, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
National Public Relations Officer of the NIS, Deputy Comptroller Sunday James who made the information available to the media, disclosed that the CGI was at the centers to ascertain level of compliance with directives given the passport officers nationwide on the Service enhanced service delivery process and procedures aimed at meeting the public expectation and satisfaction.
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Babandede visited the centres alongside the Assistant Comptroller General Overseeing the Passport and other Travel Documents Directorate ACG TV Oyedeji and Comptroller FCT Command CIS Angela pcc, when he directed the passport officers in the two offices to brace up as the major passport offices in the nations capital city.
He said that with the crowd the centers are attracting, there was need for the officers to be more innovative to women with little children and priority must be given to nursing mothers and the aged members of the society.
The Comptroller General directed also that all payments must be through banks and or online and charged officers to maintain social and physical distancing.
He said all passport issues must be submitted by applicants themselves and directly to a dedicated desk that takes register, record and forward the processed file officially not through any third party.
Babandede, therefore, admonished applicants to adhere strictly to the improved Service process and procedures to eliminate touting, extortion and other untoward acts in the passport offices.
He said all applications for passport facility must be paid for online and submitted by the applicants to a desk officer at the passport offices across the country for appropriate action to be taken.
