₦airaland Forum

The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has said President Bola Tinubu ended promotion backlogs in the services under the ministry and approved lifetime salaries for retired Comptrollers-General and Deputy Comptrollers-General of Immigration.

Tunji-Ojo said this at the closing ceremony of the Specialised Border Control and Immigration Management System (BCIMS) Training at the Immigration Headquarters in Abuja on Friday.

He commended Tinubu for addressing promotion backlogs, noting that no fewer than 50,000 personnel had gained new ranks and offices within three years.

“It has never happened before, but Tinubu did it. He also increased the volume of recruitment, where we now have no fewer that 40,000 new recruits at once.

When it comes to salary increment, Mr President has done it. In terms of hazard allowances, peculiar allowance, he also did,” he said.

Tunji-Ojo also praised the President for his commitment to the welfare of active and retired personnel, highlighting the increase in pensions for retired Comptrollers-General of Immigration.

“Previously, CGs had a pension of about N130,000, it was not encouraging. But what did the president do? He signed, and approved salary for life for CGs and DCGs.

This president has cared for the services more than any president in the history of Nigeria. He has given you his all.

And all he asks from us in the service is to do our jobs well and make Nigerians happy. Everything we have asked of him, he has done. This the least we can do,” he added.

The minister also described Tinubu as a visionary leader whose policies were intended to have long-term and lasting positive impacts.

Tunji-Ojo noted that under the Renewed Hope Agenda, Tinubu was building a system that would stand the test of time and remain effective even after he left office.

“President Bola Tinubu has never been about the immediate, but the future. He understands that the most prosperous nations do not boil, cook, and eat their seeds, they plant them.

“What this president is doing is planting the seed so that there will be abundance for the future,” he said.
The minister said Tinubu acknowledged that he would not be in office forever, but institutions would remain, adding that what mattered was what would be handed down through generations.

SmartPolician:
Oga, build modern prison facilities, work with the ministry of justice to decongest the prison and improve the welfare of prisoners. Why is this rocket science?

badoh:
Many of you expect immediate turnaround for infrastructures that have been decayed for so long. He should build modern prison, decongest the prison and improve the welfare of prisoners all at once? If previous governments have done their bits in what you suggested, don't you think it would have been okay.

Akalia:
Lifetime salary should be stopped. No one in retirement is entitled to anything else in addition to pension and gratuity.

The monies expended on paying ex government officials lifetime salary should be used to create more employment prospects for the teeming number of the unemployed people in the country.

OgundeleTeju:
https://punchng.com/tinubu-approved-lifetime-pay-for-retired-immigration-chiefs-tunji-ojo/

SmartPolician:
Oga, build modern prison facilities, work with the ministry of justice to decongest the prison and improve the welfare of prisoners. Why is this rocket science?