» Immigration To Recruit 5,000 Personnel Soon - NIS PRO «

Replaces dead, retired, officers with over 200 people in the
North-East
Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), will soon commence the
recruitment of 5, 000 officers, following government
approval, NIS Public Relations Officer, (PRO), Ekpedeme
Kings disclosed Thursday.
The 5, 000 vacancies, Kings said were: “approved under
the past administration of former President Goodluck
Jonathan for fresh recruitment in 2012, which is still
pending.”
Speaking with our correspondent on the alleged
recruitment scam in the NIS, the immigration spokesman
said the service has not started any fresh recruitment.
He explained that the immigration only carried out over
200 replacements of officers that died in the North –East
zone following the attacked by the Boko Haram sects,
resignation and retirement of its personnel at the junior
cadre within the last few years.
It would be recalled that there was a report in a National
Daily (not The Nation) early this week with the caption:
“NIS in fresh recruitment scam”.
The publication alleged that the NIS is in a fresh service.
It further alleged that the recruitment was done in
December, 2015 while the new recruitment was done in
December, 2015 while the new recruits have already been
paid their January salaries.
Kings denied the development when asked.
His words: “We did replacement of over 200 officers. The
fact is that Boko Haram has been rioted out of the North-
East zone and now for the Army to carry out its operations
in other areas it is common knowledge in the country that
the para-military, are to continue to take over the areas
that have been conquered.
“We should be able to maintain the peace in that area for
developmental proposes. The Army will go on with the war,
while the paramilitary gives support and also while
government is reconstructing the area.
“Because we have not been able to recruit for the past five
or six years, due to our failed recruitment exercises we
have not been able to have the kind of man power that is
needed to carry out this administrative occupation of the
North-East zone.
“So that services approached government that so many
officers have died in the North East zone, others have
retied because they have completed their years of service
or on account of age, others have been moved due to
several reasons.
“The workforce we are putting to this places are not
actually the middle cadre or the senior officers it is the
inspectorate that is level 1-7. We have the senior officers
that are already there.
“We pleaded with government to replace these people and
government considered and government gave the approval.
The number I do not know but it is over 200 and not 300.”
“The 5, 000 vacancies were approved under the past
administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan for
fresh recruitment in 2012, which is still pending.”
He said 80 percent of the 5, 000 officers that are going to
be recruited soon will be deployed to the borders across
the country after proper training.