Nigeria is moving forward for sure. thanks to Mr president

Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Joseph Udeh, said yesterday that the service has sacked 200 personnel who were involved in passport racketeering and what he described as "official touting" in their passport offices.
The Immigration boss told newsmen in Abuja that "Corruption in the passport office is the biggest problem for the Nigerian Immigration Service. Official touts are out there, immigration officers, making things difficult, muddling up things", he said.
He disclosed that 200 passport officers were removed leaving only 35 "useful ones" who were relevant to the passport office while noting that investigations were still on-going at the end of which the affected staff would be formally dismissed from the service.
"We are not resting on our oars, we are fighting it. Sometimes people put pressure on me to get posted to the passport office but we are resisting it. We removed over 200 people leaving only 30 useful ones.
We are handling corruption cases and we will dismiss them", he said.
He stated that his administration was deploying new measures aimed at curbing the trend even as he commended President Olusegun Obasanjo for his anti-corruption drive without which it would have been difficult to confront graft in the service.
"We will deploy new measures that would rid the service of corruption. We have quite a number of solutions and we are applying them", he noted, even as he called on passport applicants to present genuine documents to ease the work of the service.
On the Immigration Act of 1963, Udeh pointed out that provisions of the act were no longer in tandem with modern day practice hence the move to review it.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=38994

Am I the only one that thinks that a siddon look policy might be the best solution here...?

How about this one:

EFCC Detains 18 Plateau Commissioners
http://www.independentng.com/news/nnjan260603.htm

Once again, we see mixture of evil and good = EVIL. Chikena!

Nigerian people when the water is hot the rice will cook. May be all this commissioners were dipping their hands in the state funds as well, and they know once the governor goes, they all will be exposed. Nigeria is a wonderful place i tell you. they all chop and let them quench

i think it is ok. immigration guys are so so corrupt. but without them, getting passport could be hell o. what about the cash and carry passports?

ahhaha..abeg, can they hire me 2 replace demmm cuz am so much interestedd

@hotstepper how corrupt r u? without it, u can't last.

ono:

How about this one:

EFCC Detains 18 Plateau Commissioners
http://www.independentng.com/news/nnjan260603.htm

Once again, we see mixture of evil and good = EVIL. Chikena!

Ono

Of what use is that your link to this thread for God sake

You dont want to hear anything good about this country>

Thank God< members just ignore your off_topic distraction

The point I'm trying to make here is that:

1. Immigration Sacks 200 Over Passport Fraud - GOOD
2. EFCC Detains 18 Plateau Commissioners - EVIL

Do you get it now?

So,

EVIL * GOOD = EVIL

And if you take a cursory look at this OBJ administration, you'd notice that we have more EVILS than GOOD. Ask anyone here and they will tell you it's true.

OBJ is the devil's couzin

It will be business as usual in Nigeria's passport offices regardless of whether it is 200 or 2000 immigration officers that are sacked.  Try and get a passport in ANY Nigerian passport office WITHOUT paying the usual bribes, and you will be 95 years old before the passport is issued.  Conversely, if you do cough up a generous bribe in observance of the "as usual" protocol, your passport will be promptly delivered to you at home, and it will bear any identity of your choosing.

Those immigration small fish were most likely fired for failure to make adequate cash returns to senior officers higher up the food-chain.  Nothing is more hated in most Nigerian government offices than employees who try to hoard all the bribe money.

I have obtained a passport (in fact two) in Nigeria without offering a bribe. It seems some of us have allowed ourselves to become so cynical that we help in perpetuating those things we condemn.

You're just one in a Million!

@Sesan2
Your life go long(amen)

@Dejiolowe

dejiolowe:

OBJ is the devil's couzin

What do you mean sir?

ono:

And if you take a cursory look at this OBJ administration, you'd notice that we have more EVILS than GOOD. Ask anyone here and they will tell you it's true.

@Ono
I was suprised you acknowledge for the first time that OBJ administration do one good thing.Halleluyah!

Akolawole:

@Dejiolowe
What do you mean sir?

1, am not sir. 2, it means obj and the devil share the same grand parents...

A guy was caught trying to smuggle 2000 blank passports out of Nigeria.
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=39746

:-?

... it's possible that not all those "Nigerians" in prisons all over the world are actually who they say they are.

dejiolowe:

it means obj and the devil share the same grand parents...

Ok, no comment.

Deji Olowe wouldn't it be more constructive to make specific points against the Obasanjo administration's policies in selected areas, rather than resort to the type of verbal insult one would expect to hear from a disgruntled primary school student ?

Regarding corruption in the passport office or any other arm of government for that matter, blaming the president seems rather simplistic to me, considering that Baba cannot personally monitor all that goes on in every arm of government at all times.  While the fight against corruption continues unabated at the federal level, the mice will continue chewing money at all levels until caught, so why not ease up on the finger-pointing pontification at the president every time someone steals fish in the market.

r

Good work but please he should be very careful. He is stepping on someone's bread. by the way, how can i get the newly introduce e-passport?

ODEKU welcome back

ODEKU is not back. that account has been blocked by the ADMIN. that is why I result to using the new and improved BAD MAMAJAMA