Retired Immigration officers promise to partner with new Comptroller General to improve operational activities

Retired Immigration officers operating under the aegis of the National Association of Retired Immigration Officers, NARIO promised to deploy their wealth of experience in assisting the agency in order to strengthen operational activities whenever they were called upon to do so.

The interim National President of the Association, Assistant Comptroller General of Immigration, Ezekiel Kaura, Rtd, stated this when he paid a courtesy call to the newly appointed Comptroller General of Immigration Service, Kemi Nanna Nandap at the Service headquarters in Abuja.

He said, the ex-officers were always available to lend and deploy their wealth of experiences to preserve the institutional memory, and advised the new management of the Service, to make concerted efforts to strengthen and improve operational activities at the nation’s borders as well give renewed interests in robust intelligence gathering and migration management.

Speaking at the event, Ezekiel enjoined the new Comptroller General to hit the ground running to deliver a well motivated and professional workforce that would place the Service prominently in the nation’s security architecture.

He assured of uncommon and timely support from the body of retired personnel  to ensuring that the new Comptroller General succeeds and the Service remains relevant in the discharge of its statutory mandate.

He pledged the association’s readiness to an enduring partnership with management in the areas of staff capacity development activities stressing that the association has members who are ready and willing to coach and mentor new and young personnel in the Service. He called on the new CGI to also enable some welfare programmes for retirees of the Service.5.

Responding, the Comptroller General thanked the association for the visit stressing that her doors are open for enhanced engagements and collaboration. She assured that the points raised by the association in the document presented will be meticulously examined for possible implementation.6.

Some of the association members on the visit include ACG Usman Abdullahi, pcc,  mni (rtd)  CIS Kayode Musa (rtd), CIS AI Ogar, pcc (rtd) among others.