Reports on Immigration over their
2017 budget performance has shown serious scam in data management of the
agency’s component.
The report made available showed
that the Nigeria Immigration Service had entered into various agreements with
companies in Nigeria and abroad against due process.
It also pointed out that the
immigration entered agreements without time limit, a situation the Senate
described as being fraudulent.
Reacting, Senator Bayero Nafada,
a member of the committee stressed that efforts to get to the root of the phony
arrangement proved abortive as executives of those companies turned down the
committee’s invitations severally.
”Mr. President, distinguished
colleagues, I can confirm to you that Immigration has endless agreement with
some companies processing international passport,” he confirmed.
“I keep wondering where
agreements takes place without a duration,’ he wondered.
Senator Solomon Adeola Olamilekun
explained that the nation has been put in bondage by the Nigeria Immigration
Service.
He lamented that one of the
agents contracted to process international passport of Nigerians living in
London has never been here.
“Mr. President, Nigeria is on
bondage. How can immigration go into agreements without time limit and you see
what happens there; there is one of the contractors in London who has never
visited Nigeria.”
“Efforts to invite him to appear
before our committee proved abortive,” he added.
The lawmaker alleged that there
were rackets within the entire transactions where percentages are remitted to
the Ministry officials.
He also revealed the transactions
were shrouded in secrecy as ministry officials would not open up to the
committee in the course of interrogation.
In his remark, Senate President,
Bukola Saraki ruled that the 2017 budget be stopped until they have complied,
sayings that the projected revenue was a shopping the sum of $31 million.
‘What we are talking about here
is over $31 million dollars and we must ensure that this nonsense is stopped in
this change administration,” he said.
Meanwhile, the report has been
referred to the Senate Committee on Immigration and Interior for further
investigations.
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