ALL Our Officers Will Undergo Drug Test To Handle Weapons, Says Immigration CG

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, 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.

“We shall not dismiss anyone at first discovery but we would try
to rehabilitate.

“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”.