By Bode Olagoke Abuja
Aggrieved offi cer of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Daniel Makolo, has dragged the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Board to the National Industrial Court over the refusal of the NIS to promote him for over 10 years. Makolo, in a motion ex parte is seeking an order restraining the NIS, the CDFIB and the CG immigration from “carrying out any promotion exercise pending the hearing and determination of this writ of summons, thus maintaining the status quo ante.”
Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, yesterday decorated the newly promoted 16 Assistant Comptrollers-General (ACGs) to the position of DeputyComptrollers-Generals (DCGs) in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the Nigeria Prison Service (NPS). Some of the appointees in the Immigration Service were Yunusa Yahaya Dauda, Lawal Rafi u, Anene Ogor Floretta, Nta Jaja and Greham Nurudeen. In NSCDC, the benefi ciaries were Madu Hillary Kelechi, Mohammed Jega, Haruna Idris, Adesoji Emmanuel Adeoye and Nathaniel Ebong.
Other promoted senior offi cers in the Nigeria Prison Service (NIS) were Usman Shehu Kanjiwa, Mallum Ekundayo and Ogundana Babalola Jerome, Charles Chukwuemeka and Dorothy Agor Attajiri. Blueprint, however, gathered that the board did not follow due process and the laid down regulations during the promotion exercise. A source revealed that most of the senior offi cers who were eligible were not invited for the promotion interview, describing the exercise as “skewed in favour of selected offi cials.”
It was further gathered that the board, which is chaired by Dambazau, simply handpicked some favoured candidates and issued them letters of promotion, while ignoring others who had spent over five years in their ranks. It was gathered that no fewer than 28 ACGs in the immigration service were sidelined by the CDFIB while tens of others were also not considered in the three other para-military services.
