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Hero Of A Changing Nigeria: Former Nigeria Immigration Service Boss, Mrs Uzoma by TheKingsQueen: 7:03pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Hero of A Changing Nigeria: Former Nigeria Immigration Service Boss, Mrs Rose C. Uzoma By World Youth Network Against Crime Majority of those in Nigeria’s civil service and genuine citizens of Africa’s most populous nation suffered a huge setback in the campaign for positive change and leadership as the shocking news of the forced retirement of the former Comptroller General, Mrs Rose Chinyere Uzoma hit the world media. Contrary to reports that she was sacked or fired, she was actually retired. However, this untimely retirement was allegedly forced and initiated by the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro. Top sources in the Nigeria Immigration Service informed the World Youth Network Against Crime (WYNAC), a coalition of youth activists against crime around the world, of this development. The Minister is accused of high handedness, abuse of office, corruption, nepotism and ethnicity, and maintains that the immigration boss got the boot because she resisted attempts by the minister to usurp the functions of her office. For example, the minister is said to have usurped the duties of the comptrollers general of immigration and prison services so much so that he was directly involved in the posting of most junior officers. Before Mr. Moro became interior minister, the tradition in the services was for the comptrollers general to undertake all the postings in their agencies. The CG sent only the list of assistant comptrollers general and deputy comptrollers general to the minister for approval. Most times, since the minister does not know the men, he trusts the CG’s judgment and approves the posting. However, it is alleged that the interior minister had personally taken interest in postings in the immigration and prison services and handled postings of men as low in rank as chief superintendents. The sources also hinted that the minister and his aides interfere so much to the extent of posting people to specific offices, desks and schedules. This high handedness on the part of the minister, it is said, has bred a lot of indiscipline in the services, particularly in the commands, because junior officers who got postings through him no longer subjected themselves to the comptrollers in the commands. The minister and Mrs. Uzoma are said to have quarrelled over many issues bothering on irresponsible and gross interference of her functions, but the immediate problem that led to her ouster began in November when she undertook new postings in the service. This unfortunate occurrence highlights the cost of pioneering change in Nigeria. Concerned citizens and friends of Nigeria across the globe were shocked at the revelations and insight by the book “Reforming The Unreformable – Lessons From Nigeria” written by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The book’s insight revealed the depth of corruption in Nigeria and the expensive cost of pioneering change of which Mrs Rose Chinyere Uzoma may have become a victim. One cannot help but ask why she was removed with a few months to retirement, why she was not removed on the basis of incompetence because according to reports she had tremendously helped and facilitated intense security at Nigeria’s borders, restored pride amongst Nigerians on their green passport and promoted initiatives bothering on intelligence sharing for efficient joint immigration security across west Africa. But for her attempt to get the Minister to understand the structure of the Immigration policies, she got the hammer. We hope Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will look deeper into this occurrence as there are more change agents within Nigeria’s civil service whose efforts are crippled without reason. He should take decisive action by investigating the allegations leveled against the Minister Moro. Having followed the developments thus far, we could say Mrs. Uzoma got axed for standing up to what was wrong. Africa must stand up against crime. The world is watching! For World Youth Network Against Crime (WYNAC) Simon Kisongo Tanzania https://m.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=464295746951735 *Moderator: PlS Frontpage*
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Re: Hero Of A Changing Nigeria: Former Nigeria Immigration Service Boss, Mrs Uzoma by 2Legit2Qui: 7:26pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Hero indeed. |
Re: Hero Of A Changing Nigeria: Former Nigeria Immigration Service Boss, Mrs Uzoma by Nobody: 7:36pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Why FG Sacked Immigration Boss - Another View Source |
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