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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
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Nigeria Immigration Service to recruit 5000 personnel

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The performing Comptroller-Normal (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Idris Jere, has mentioned plans are underway to recruit further 5,000 personnel into the service.

Mr Jere, who acknowledged this whereas fielding questions from journalists in Dutse on Saturday, mentioned the gesture was aimed toward addressing manpower deficit within the NIS.

“As regards to insufficient personnel within the NIS, as you already know, we’ve simply concluded recruitment into the service and we’re coaching these recruits now.

“As you’re additionally conscious, the federal government has positioned embargo on recruitment, however lifted that on safety businesses, as a result of safety is vital.

“So, we’ve written to the President and I’m very certain we’ll get approval to recruit about 5,000 extra personnel into the NIS,” Mr Jere mentioned.

He added that the Minister of Inside, Rauf Aregbesola, had despatched a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, who indicated his willingness to approve the request.

The CG was in Jigawa to condole with the family of one of its officers killed by suspected bandits on Aug. 9 and go to others hospitalised.

The personnel have been attacked at one of many Immigration Service’s bases alongside Birniwa-Galadi axis, in Birniwa Native Authorities Space of the state.

The bandits opened hearth on the Immigration operatives who have been on patrol, which resulted within the demise of considered one of them named Abdullahi Mohammed (CIA), whereas two others suffered critical bullet wounds.

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The Immigration CG reiterated that the service wouldn’t be discouraged by the incident in its efforts to safe Nigerian borders for nationwide peace and growth.

In response to him, the service will quickly deploy expertise to boost its efforts geared in direction of the protection and safety of the nation’s borderlines.

“As an illustration, Jigawa borders Niger Republic and the space is about 1,680kms, which could be very large for immigration officers to patrol.

“So, expertise is the reply to this downside. And fortunately the Federal Authorities had authorized the e-border that may cowl Maigatari right here in Jigawa and different borders throughout the nation.

“We have now infrastructure already, so cameras and drones will likely be used in order to patrol the borders adequately, however that is capital intensive.

“However, I need to guarantee you that the deployment of this expertise will quickly begin,” Mr Jere mentioned.

He appealed to the state authorities to help the Immigration service with autos with a purpose to guarantee fixed patrol of the Maigatari border.

The CG additionally appealed to conventional establishments within the state to help the service with very important details about suspicious actions for applicable and immediate motion.

“Info is significant and these individuals committing crimes will not be demons, they’re inside us.

”So, present us (Immigration Service) with credible details about suspicious individuals or actions in order that we act appropriately and promptly.

“Once we get credible details about criminals, it should allow us to stop them from inflicting havoc. Crime prevention is cheaper than combating it,” the CG mentioned.

(NAN)


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