Aggrieved officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, affected by the halt in the posting to foreign missions, have threatened to drag the Comptroller-General, Kemi Nandap, to court over alleged violation of administrative procedure and their fundamental rights.
The affected NIS officers, numbering about 80, were, in a letter dated 5th of March, 2024, with reference number NIS/CGI/FD/11/119 and titled ‘RE: Posting of Immigration Attaches to foreign mission’, ordered by the GC Didel, ACG(I/C HRM) to return their posting letters on or before 9th of March, 2024.
OsunDailyNG gathered that most of the affected officers were shocked by the reversal of their postings to Nigerian embassies abroad as Immigration attaches.
The reversal came few weeks after they were officially informed of their postings.
The officers, who were posted to different Nigerian embassies in Europe, the United States, Asia and African countries, had received three weeks training at the Nigerian Immigration Headquarters in Abuja.
While many of them have returned their posting letters, others have expressed fear that the action of the newly appointed Comptroller-General, Kemi Nandap,
was borne out of the need to compensate her loyalists within the Service.
Some of the aggrieved officers, despite the order against speaking to the media, noted that it was a sign of handedness and lack of administrative competence for a newly appointed Comptroller General to start dabbling into administrative posting without studying the system.
They threatened to ensure that she will get her fair share of crisis, claiming that she was appointed as CG despite her glaring inexperience.
A source within the Immigration Service said, “We are going to expose her activities both official and private as she wants to deny us our right.
“We are in the Industrial Court. We are ready for them. We are not returning our posting letters, let them do their worst, we are in court with them.”
