The Minister of Inside, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has mentioned the issue going through his ministry is the unavailability of passports.
In line with him, the largest problem we presently face is tips on how to forestall people who find themselves not entitled to a Nigerian passport from proudly owning one.
Talking at a management summit organized by the Younger Legal professionals Discussion board in Abuja on Wednesday, Tunji-Ojo mentioned some Chadians, Cameroonians and Nigerians had the Nigerian passports.
He famous that the ministry had simply launched a verification train to stop that.
Tunji-Ojo mentioned: “On the problem of acquiring passports, the principle difficulty as of immediately will not be about availability. The purpose is to stop those that don’t have anything to do with a Nigerian passport from proudly owning one.
“We see Chadians, Cameroonians and Nigerians with Nigerian passports. What we’ve got been capable of do to cease that is to introduce a verification train into the passport acquisition course of. ”
He additionally mentioned the Nigerian Immigration Service was doing its greatest to make sure that the nation's borders had been adequately secured.
The minister mentioned: “The safety of the border is instantly proportional to the safety of a nation. There have to be management over who enters and who leaves our borders.
“This duty is the only real prerogative of the Nigerian Immigration Service to guard our borders. We’re bordered by 4 international locations and solely two are ECOWAS international locations. We’re doing every thing we are able to to safe our borders.”
He famous that the Nationwide Id Administration Fee had cleared a complete of two.4 million nationwide ID card backlogs.
“At NIMC, we had been capable of clear 2.4 million backlogs that we had incurred domestically,” he mentioned.
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