FG Asks Immigration CG to Hand over to Most Senior DCG

Michael Olugbode in Abuja

The federal government has directed the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Idris Isah, whose tenure is expected to expire on April 24, to hand over the affairs of the Service to the most senior officer.

This directive was believed to have been given to placate those set to protest the alleged plotting by the ongoing CG to further extend his tenure.

The CG who was due for retirement April 24, last year, had gotten an extension for a year and is presently alleged to be plotting another extension.

But in order to checkmate the alleged move, some concerned officers had written to President Muhammadu Buhari against this, insisting that it would lead to bad blood and indiscipline within the Service, and even threatened to come out in large numbers to protest the illegality.

Reacting to the development through a memo issued by the Civil Defense, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, dated 17th of April, 2023, and addressed to the NIS boss, the federal government directed him to, “hand over to the most senior officer, the Deputy Comptroller General on or before Monday 24th April, 2023, pending Mr. President’s appointment of a substantive Comptroller General of the Service.”

The memo signed by the acting secretary to the Board, Obasi Edozie Edmund, reminded the outgoing CG of his one-year tenure extension granted to him in 2022 by the President.