…NIS Acting CG Inept, Should Be Booted Out Now - COYAC Insists!

Since her appointment as Acting Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs Carol Wura-ola Adepoju has continued to court controversies that tend to not only put the Service in bad light, but also affect the service from achieving its mandate.

Under her watch, the public rating of the NIS has fallen so low. Her actions do not allign with the renewed hope agenda of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Mrs Carol Wura-ola Adepoju appears to be a clog in the wheel of progress at the NIS.

To the surprise and dismay of officers and men of NIS, the husband of the Acting Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has literally taken over the day-to-day running of the affairs of the NIS, as he is seen giving orders to, and beckoning on officers and men on a daily basis.

Mr Adepoju has gone the extra mile, by situating a permanent office for himself on the premises of the NIS Headquarters in Abuja, where he daily dishes out marching orders to officers and men. He is at the helms of affairs and runs the NIS, while his wife, Mrs Carol Wura-ola Adepoju (the Acting CG) is behind the scene.

It is on record, that the Acting CG has been bragging at every little opportunity to all and sundry that this is the turn of the Yoruba ethnic stock and that nothing can happen and that she is in control and, as such, threatens contractors alike, if any one of them refuses to tow her line.

She has nicknamed them “disloyal contractors.” She has, as well, boasted severally that, she will be confirmed as a substantive CG and given extension of service when, even the rank and file are aware that she has outlived her usefulness at the NIS.

It will be recalled that the Federal Character Commission (FCC) recently wrote a letter to the Ministry of Interior, informing the Ministry that she violated the Federal Character Commission’s extant rules of recruitment of candidates into the NIS and she has arbitrarily given employment to select people from her geo-political zone, not minding the query issued to her by the FCC..

It is in view of the above, that the attention of the Coalition of Youths Against Corruption (COYAC) and Good Governance Initiative (GGI) a prodemocracy, human rights and civil society group has been drawn to the unethical sharp practices been perpetrated currently by the leadership of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs Carol Wura-ola Adepoju, in the on-going recruitment of candidates into the service without due process; not following the Federal Character Commission (FCC) laid down rules of recruitment of candidates into the organization; the misappropriation of funds meant for foreign missions by the acting CG; the unethical procurement practices of spending tax payers’ money with her husband, particularly making sure that the husband is perpetually listed on the travel manual with her on every trip; approving unethical recruitment racketeering ring organized by one so-called Babangida and Nasiru, a self-acclaimed religious bigot always playing the religious card who sell out employment letters to cronies, friends and family members, instead of capable Nigerians seeking employment and enabling the bragging rights of the Acting CG who has consistently said she is going nowhere, whereas her three months extension has expired, despite knowing full well she is deficient in the management of the affairs of the NIS.

The Nigerian Immigration Service is a government agency mandated and saddled with responsibilities to control persons entering or leaving the country, issuance of travel documents to bona fide Nigerians at home and abroad, issuance of resident permits to foreigners in Nigeria, border surveillance and patrol and the enforcement of the above laws and regulations rests on its oars. Regrettably, since the advent of the incumbent administration under the leadership of Mrs Carol Wura-ola Adepoju, it has been observed by keen watchers that, the Nigeria Immigration Service has been bedeviled with poor leadership, cronyism, official high handedness, passport racketeering and poor border surveillance/patrol leading to the influx of illegal aliens exacerbating the poor security situation in the country.

In a press release made available to journalists in Lagos by the pressure group, the Coalition of Youths Against Corruption (COYAC) and signed by the President of COYAC, Mahmud Bello and National Coordinator (GGI), Com. Sani Ninjiba Sarki, the duo lamented that the Wura-ola Adepoju-led NIS has negated the core values of the organization by entrenching cronyism and sharing the slots of employments/recruitments to Nigerians between herself, a former Minister in charge of the Ministry of Interior and giving same to Mr Nasiru, an officer of the service to sell and use at will to favour some select few instead of making it available to majority of Nigerians.

Mahmud Bello and Com. Sani Ninjibi Sarki emphasized that “the Acting CG of the Nigeria Immigration Service has been entrenching her kinsmen and cronies in juicy positions at the detriment of quality service delivery and efficiency which was the hall mark of the NIS before she came on board as acting leader not long ago.”

COYAC also emphasized that the border patrol funds are not properly utilized for effective border management, but are going into private pockets, instead of government coffers and that there is lack of transparency in passports administration which has affected passport insurance to a lot of Nigerians across the country, which has also affected the Greater Washington levy to address verification for all passport clients. The non-functionality of operational vehicles across the country at various posts is giving officers and men cause for concern and worries which has also affected the lack of adequate facilities at the airports and sea borders.

Accordingly, we condemn in the strongest terms the procurement process presently on-going at the NIS which is poorly managed and coordinated. The due process regime are not followed for contracts, contractors and purchases which are also given to cronies without following the laid down rules and guidelines. The productivity of staff which was foremost and paramount then has now nose-dived as command and control of personnel deployments across the country is at the lowest ebb with low morale and low espirit-de-corps of officers and men. Narrating further, the group lamented and chided the poor management regime of Wura-ola Adepoju’s leadership, noting that it has engendered low morale in the service. The group added, that the spirit of oneness and discipline peculiar to the paramilitary organization has taken flight in the NIS, thereby reducing productivity and revenue generation for the country.

Duly, the group therefore “Passes a Vote of no Confidence” on the management for the low level of leadership and the factors mentioned above and hereby describe the scarcity of passports nation-wide and other travel documents, which it attributed to the evil machinations of a syndicate chaired by Nasiru and Babangida oiled by the Acting CG for her personal gain and the cabal she operates within the system.

COYAC and GGI have it on good authority, that the present led management is systematically destroying the legacies met on ground and witch-hunting those patriotic personnel and officers who are opposed to her machinations and therefore, “we ask Mr President to remove her immediately from office to pave the way for a more pro-Tinubu loyalist, effective, efficient and proactive officer who is determined to lead by example for the betterment of the NIS and to improve revenue generation for the total wellbeing of the nation.”

We further reiterate that the Accountant of the Civil Defence, Immigration, Fire and Prisons Board (CDIFPB) should be made to account for his stewardship for the past eight years he piloted the affairs of the Board as we have it on good authority, that there are a lot of financial infractions, fleecing and loopholes presently noticed on the Board as procurement procedures are not followed and due process abandoned totally in all ramifications.

The group is using this medium to also ask that the husband of the Acting NIS CG, should vacate the premises of the NIS. If not, “we would be forced to carry out a one million man-march protest to the National Assembly, Aso Rock Villa, ministry of Interior and the Office of the National Security Adviser as the husband is not an employee of the NIS.”

All of you in Nigeria Immigration Service are fantasticaly Corrupt. New Sheriff in town

Buhari started all this rubbish.. When he was busy employing only his kinsmen. The north was fine with it.

Now it's the turn of the yoruba and she is inky employing her kinsmen.

Nigeria now na turn by turn. Ask tinubu

Na ontop one person dem write these epistles to Romans?

I cannot recall the last time the NIS was stewarded by a conscientious Comptroller General. Our new Minister of Interior, who has been showered with much praise in recent days, needs to investigate this latest set of grave allegations.

Caroline Wura-Ola Adepoju Ag. CGIS (2023 – Date)

Isah Jere Idris Ag. CGIS (2021 – 2023)

...Relying on the letter of extension as signed, the one year elongation ends on the 24th of April 2023 and by a letter from the office of the honourable Minister of Interior, the Acting CG. Isah Idris Jere was directed to handover to the most senior Deputy Comptroller General on or before the 24th of April 2023, an order that he, Jere erroneously disobeyed.
“This is an act of gross disobedience and corruption and it cannot be allowed to stand.
“While we call for immediate arrest and prosecution of Mr Isah Dere, we also want to reiterate that no attempt should be made to erroneously extend his tenure, not even by a day following the order to hand over and the fact of his official retirement.

Source: Civil Societies Write Buhari, Threaten Protest Over Nigerian Immigration Boss, Isah Jere’s Refusal To Leave Office After Expiration Of Tenure

Muhammed Babandede, MFR CGIS (2016 – 2021)

Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede, has illegally diverted N23m given to the agency for officers as palliative during the COVID-19 outbreak.

SaharaReporters gathered that the fund, which was received by the agency, was about to be disbursed to all officers when Babandede diverted the funds.

He subsequently oversaw the disbursement of the funds to some selected persons, who are his cronies within the agency.

Source: EXCLUSIVE: Immigration Service Boss, Babandede, Illegally Diverts N23m Palliative Fund Meant For Officers

Babandede, who was appointed as the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration May 15, 2016, by President Muhammadu Buhari to replace Mr. Martin Kure Abeshi, had promised to rid the "service off corruption" but the reverse is the case as ALEDEH has uncovered "corruption unlimited" at the Service under his watch.

Investigations carried out by ALEDEH, reveals that a lot of illegalities are currently going on at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport located in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria's commercial city as well as Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city as NIS officials go on rampage; collecting illegal levies from unsuspicious foreigners.

Source: EXCLUSIVE: ALEDEH Uncovers Corruption Unlimited At Nigerian Immigration Service

Martin Kure Abeshi, CGIS (2015 – 2016)

A human rights group has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that Martin Abeshi, comptroller-general of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), recieves $20,000 each as bribe from officers to post them to Nigeria's missions abroad.

Source: Group petitions Buhari alleging bribe-for-posting 'scam' in NIS

David Shikfu Parradang, mni CGIS (2013 – 2015)

“I was surprised about the recruitment exercise because as a Comptroller-General, I was not aware of it.”I told the minister it would have been fair to inform the Head of the Service that he was recruiting and that in the service, we had a delegated authority to recruit from a certain cadre”.

Source: Ex-CG denies knowledge of failed recruitment exercise

Rilwan Bala Musa, mni Ag. CGIS (2013 - No blemish(?)

Rose Chinyere Uzoma CGIS (2010 – 2013)

The recent firing of Nigeria’s immigration boss, Mrs. Rose Chinyere Uzoma, after admitting that she apportioned many slots to persons in the inner sanctum of power, including the mother of the president, has unveiled a seedy part of our culture. Few jobs, especially in the public sector, come without moral compromises. Bribes are the key to the employment kingdom.

Also, at lower levels, a syndicate with specialty in employment racketeering characterises job placements in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The obnoxious group reportedly charges prospective job seekers in federal ministries, departments and agencies, (MDAs), huge amounts of between N400, 000 and N500, 000. Shockingly, the syndicate reportedly fronts for heads of some MDAs with base in Gwagwalada, Karu and other strategic areas in the FCT.

Source: Abuja job racket

augustine77:
…NIS Acting CG Inept, Should Be Booted Out Now - COYAC Insists!

The group is using this medium to also ask that the husband of the Acting NIS CG, should vacate the premises of the NIS. If not, “we would be forced to carry out a one million man-march protest to the National Assembly, Aso Rock Villa, ministry of Interior and the Office of the National Security Adviser as the husband is not an employee of the NIS.”

You left out your source: https://authorityngr.com/2023/10/07/mr-adepoju-leave-nis-alone-face-your-family-matters

jogsman01:
Na ontop one person dem write these epistles to Romans?

E shock you too? Bad people in NIS.

This is the same woman who cleared all the backlog of passports application as soon as she was appointed as acting CG.

This life ehn, you can never satisfy human beings. Just do your best and leave the rest.

She is obviously shaking the bad people in the system and I urge her to keep giving her best.
God bless Nigeria for ever!

E no just shock me, my shock absorber deflated

FreeStuffsNG:

E shock you too? Bad people in NIS.

This is the same woman who cleared all the backlog of passports application as soon as she was appointed as acting CG.

This life ehn, you can never satisfy human beings. Just do your best and leave the rest.

She is obviously shaking the bad people in the system and I urge her to keep giving her best.
God bless Nigeria for ever!

FreeStuffsNG:

E shock you too? Bad people in NIS.

This is the same woman who cleared all the backlog of passports application as soon as she was appointed as acting CG.

This life ehn, you can never satisfy human beings. Just do your best and leave the rest.

She is obviously shaking the bad people in the system and I urge her to keep giving her best.
God bless Nigeria for ever!

She is not doubt shaking up the system, and we need to give her plenty of credit for this.

At the same time if there is any truth in the claims made here, we need to call out her out on it.
Nigeria needs strong institutions which are guided by laws and not autocratic leaders whose commendable efforts only lasts for a short time.

In other news...

Confirm Adepoju as immigration CG, Yoruba group urges Tinubu

By Chimezie Godfrey



The Yoruba Heritage Group has commended the appointment of Wura-Ola Caroline Adepoju as the acting comptroller-general for the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).

On Monday, the federal government through the civil defense, correctional, fire and immigration services board, appointed Adepoju, former deputy comptroller-general of the NIS, as the new service head.

Adepoju replaces Isah Jere whose tenure expired on May 29.

In a statement on Thursday, Segun Adesemoye, president of the heritage group, said the Yoruba people had been deprived of the position of CG since the NIS was established.

Adesemoye commended President Bola Tinubu for “breaking the jinx by allowing this to happen during this critical time when Nigeria was in dire need of healing and national restoration”.

“It is record-breaking and symbolic that the appointment happened on your first day in office,” he said.

“This is a pointer to greater things to come, we thank the president for his courage and selflessness,” he added.

The group appealed to Tinubu to confirm Adepoju’s appointment as the substantive immigration CG, adding that she has the competence and capacity to push reforms that will transform the service.

Adesemoye noted that the new CG would serve diligently in line with the vision of the president to ensure efficient border security and enhance the passport regime, and migration management.

Source: https://newsdiaryonline.com/confirm-adepoju-as-immigration-cg-yoruba-group-urges-tinubu