The Nigeria Immigration Service prosecutes three staff at the Federal High Court for committing passport offense

THE Federal High Court in Katsina State has remanded one Peter Ethan, a passport officer with the Service, NIS, and two others in prison custody till November 13, over an attempt to procure Nigerian passport with false breeder documents.

The three accused persons were arraigned by Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, prosecutor on a three-count charge of conspiracy to procure passport using false information, submitting false information to procure passport and counselling a person to produce false information for purpose of procuring Passport.

These offences are in contravention of the provisions of the Immigration Act 2015.

A statement signed by Sunday James, Service public relations officer, said that Muhammad Babandede,   comptroller general of Immigration, CGI, advised Nigerians to always ensure that they present genuine breeder documents for passport applications, while officers and men are hereby warned to desist from colluding with passport applicants to commit such offenses.

“The service will not fail to prosecute all offenders including serving Officers,” it said.

Meanwhile, the CGI commends the efforts of Katsina State Command for its relentless war against organized crime.

– Nov. 6, 2018 @ 12:59 GMT |