Yemisi Izuora
The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede, has denied a publication by section of the media alleging that N23m was given to the Service as palliative payment to its Officers and Men.
DCI Sunday James, Service Public Relations Officer, in a statement noted, “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.
James therefore dismissed the publication as false, mischievous, and a figment of the imagination of the writer, with the intention to cause disaffection within the rank and file of the Service.
The Service enjoined 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.