The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) says not less than
140,000 international passports are uncollected nationwide.
Tony Akuneme, the NIS spokesperson, shared the development
in an interview with the NAN on Tuesday in Lagos.
Akuneme said about 40,000 of the total 140,000 are in the
Alausa passport office in Ikeja.
He said the majority of the uncollected passports had wrong
phone contacts and untraceable addresses.
Akuneme called on applicants to process their international
passports themselves using the correct details and without involving racketeers.
“In spite of the extensive awareness embarked on by NIS on
passport application and its processes, some Nigerians still patronise
racketeers or consultants to process their passports, which usually does not
work out well,” he said.
“Some applicants are gullible, they fell into the hands of
touts who duped them of their hard-earned money.”
He urged Nigerians to visit
https://passport.immigration.gov.ng/application to personally process their
passports.
“I still want to emphatically plead with passport seekers
not to use consultants, racketeers, nor masqueraders while processing their
international passports,” he said.
“Most of the contact numbers inputted by these unethical
human beings are not real.”
Akuneme called on applicants who had applied for passports
before July 2022 and were unable to obtain their passports to visit the NIS
website to lodge their complaints.
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