Nigeria’s Consul-General in South Africa, Amb. Uche Ajulu-Okeke, said on Sunday that the Federal Government lost $39,370 (about N10.9 million) to visa and passport fees at processing centres in that country.

Okeke told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Johannesburg, South Africa, that the Online Integrated Solutions (OIS), a firm that processes passport and visa on behalf of the Nigeria Immigration Service abroad, reported the loss to the Consulate.
“Concrete evidence that we have got shows a recent compilation of 254 online payment fraudulent reversals of passport applications which occurred between the months of April and June 2016.
“These acts were deliberately done by Nigerians to defraud their government,” she said.
Okeke said the acts were perpetrated through the banks.
She said the South African banking system allowed anyone with a credit card to reverse such payment if there was complain within 30 days.
“Unfortunately, some Nigerians in South Africa have perfected the act of defrauding the Federal Government by going to the banks to report loss or fraudulent use of such cards and the banks will reverse the payment,” she said.
The Consul-General also said “because of speed in service delivery accorded Nigerians by the Consulate at the instance of the Federal Government, the passport would have been produced’’.
According to her, the Nigerians will pay online; collect the passports within the stipulated 30 days with the passports in their pockets, go back to the bank and reverse the payments.
Okeke said it was very unfortunate that some Nigerians deliberately defrauded the government through such acts in a foreign land.
“The Consulate has compiled a list of those involved in this act and sent to Abuja. The Nigeria Immigration Service will decide whether those passports will be cancelled or withdrawn from circulation,” she said.
The Consul-General disclosed that the mission recorded 58 reversals of online visa payments between April and June 2016.

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Na wa for Naija peps shaa
We are just fantastically corrupt

Unfortunately... No love for the country!

It was probably not well managed else, no bank reverses card transactions without referring to the merchant first if service delivery was ensured or not.

Hummm

story

naija my country

Blood sucking demons everywia. If they dont succeed using boko haram, they turn to biafra. When that one fails to they assume a new identity of avengers. God help us!

This is not possible. Do they mean everyone who applied does this. Proper investigation should be conducted because people working in the Nigeria consulate have questions to answer.

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McJane:
NCAN texas reporting live:

name checked--ugandans

location_ravaged land

Normalities_drug dealing fraud etc

description flat heads.




passing on to NCAN SW
region

did you read the post atall

Sunofgod:
Rubbish............I'm sure they had good reason to reverse the transaction!

Kindly name the reason?