December 08, (THEWILL) – A Group known as the True Nigerians for Transparency and Good Governance (TNTGG), has cautioned the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, against acts that will further distort the confidence of personnel of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), warning that abnormal promotions of junior officers over the senior officers is a time bomb, waiting to explode.
According to the group, even though the “special and abnormal” promotion exercise is against the Act establishing the Service in Nigeria Immigration, the selective and clandestine decision of the Minister of Interior alongside the Secretary and the newly promoted Comptroller General is already caution rumbling and crisis in the service.
The National Coordinator of the group, Comrade Babajide Junaid, noted that instead of the Minister of Interior strengthening the functions of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and ensuring the operational rules are duly followed and the welfare of personnel and discipline is adhered to, the Ministry is promoting discontent among the men and officers of the Service.
According to the group, preliminary investigations into the rising discontent in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) revealed that the Secretary of the Board of Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Service, Jaafaru Ahmed, is allegedly responsible for the ongoing manipulations and mischief in the NIS, due to his manipulative hold on the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.
It was gathered that President Bola Tinubu had dissolved the Board and Members of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Service left, but Jaafaru returned unofficially, Jaafaru Ahmed, who is the Secretary, remained untouched.
He is alleged to be manipulating all the board activities, making the Minister a rubber stamp for controversial decisions and faulty policies.
Jaafaru Ahmed, according to the group, and not the Minister of Interior, is responsible for the manipulation of the promotion of officers of all the four services under the Ministry, “The promotion exercise is being tampered with and alterations are made to accommodate the illegal special promotion in the Nigeria Immigration Service specifically.
“It is also gathered that these illegalities and alterations are allegedly sponsored by Caroline Wuraola Adepoju, the Comptroller General of Immigration Service. President Bola Tinubu should intervene and stop the illegal Special Promotion in the Immigration Service”, bringing junior Comptrollers to higher ranks.
