The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service was yesterday suspended with immediate effect by the Federal Government.
In a letter signed by Director/Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, A. A. Ibrahim, Parradang was said to have issued letters of appointments of 700 Assistant Inspectors of Immigration and 900 Assistants III into the Nigeria Immigration Service without approval.
He was also accused of failing to take measures to correct the wrong doing despite repeated advice given as conveyed in letters reference No. FMI/PSO/001/III/402 of 11th June, 2015 and Reference letter FMI/PSO/001/IIII/411 of 14th June, 2015.
“Having considered the above-mentioned act committed by you to make deliberate disregard to the extant laws, insurbodination to constituted authority and improper behaiour inimical to the service that is unbecoming of a public officer, I am to inform you that you have beeen suspended from the office with immediate effect, while you awiat further instructions, you are to hand over the affairs of your office to the most senior officer in the Immigration Service” stated Ibrahim in the suspension letter.
It is generally believed that the suspension of the immigration boss might not be unconnected with the current investigation by the federal government of the lapse in the organisation that resulted in the issuance of a Nigerian visa to a wanted terrorist of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Ahmed
Al Assir, a cleric, in Lebanon last Saturday, which caused the country huge embarrassment in the eyes of the international community. Assir has been on the run for two years, having been declared wanted in Lebanon in 2013 when his followers clashed with the Lebanese army, resulting in the death of 18 government soldiers.
