The Nigeria Immigration Service
(NIS) says all its officers will undergo a drug test to ensure that they handle
weapons properly.
Muhammad Babandede, NIS
comptroller-general, was quoted as saying this in a statement issued by Sunday
James, the service’ spokesman, on Saturday.
Babandede said any officer found
wanting would be rehabilitated by the service.
“We cannot afford to be careless
with weapons, hence, all officers of the service will undergo drug test
beginning with me,” he said.
“However, if the fellow continued
unrepentant, administrative procedures will be followed and appropriate
sanctions applied.”
Also, the service graduated 509
officers of the third conversion and upgrading course at the immigration
training school, Kano.
Speaking at the event, Babandede
asked the officers to cherish their new ranks by aligning with the commitment
and dedication to the duty of the superintendent cadre.
According to him, there is a need
for the officers to put what they learnt into action, and that the service has
invested so much into training and capacity development.
He encouraged them to maximise
the knowledge of ICT gained to uplift the standard of the service among other
sister agencies by complementing each other whenever the need arises.
The comptroller-general said the
visa-on-arrival policy is a huge opportunity for Africans that were coming into
the country for legitimate businesses.
Babandede added that it is a
means of integration and “cementing African brotherhood and breaking the
barriers of free movement among Africans”.
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