The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has discredited the news flying around in some sections of the media that some the service received the sum of N23 million as palliative payment to Officers and Men of the Service.
The Comptroller General of the Service, Muhammad Babandede, MFR, debunked the news in a statement issued by the service’s Public Relations Officer, DCI Sunday James pcc on Monday, saying the payments made to the officers of the serves was routine payments processed and paid officers in line with extant rules contrary to the publication, the Comptroller General was in isolation and undergoing treatment during the process
The statement reads in parts: “The attention of the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede, MFR, has been drawn to a publication by section of the media alleging that N23m was given to Nigeria Immigration Service as palliative payment to Officers and Men of the Service.
“For the purpose of clarification, there was no palliative given the Service from the Government or private bodies for distribution to its personnel. The payments made to the officers was routine payments processed and paid officers in line with extant rules contrary to the publication, the Comptroller General was in isolation and undergoing treatment during the process. There has never been an occasion for payment of money to so called cronies as alleged.
“Therefore, the publication was false, mischievous, and a figment of the imagination of the writer, clearly intended to cause disaffection within the rank and file of the Service. Hence, the Service enjoins Officers and Men to distance themselves from such publication and continue to work as uniform Officers who are guided by standard operating procedures and code of professional ethics worthy of uniform service.
