Assistant Comptroller General Of Immigration, Zone A, Oluremi Talabi, Visits Lagos State Command

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Assistant Comptroller General of Immigration visits<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the <strong>Assistant<&sol;strong> Comptroller General of Immigration&comma; Zone A&comma; Oluremi Ajoke Talabi&comma; during the week&comma; visited the Lagos Command of the Immigration Service&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lagos Command is part of Zone A which has under it Ogun State Command&comma; Murtala Mohammed International Airport&comma; MMIA Command&comma; Seme Border Command&comma; Lagos Border Patrol Command&comma; Idiroko Border Command&comma; Lagos Seaport and Marine Command as well as the Passport Control Command&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a statement signed by Jide Ogungbe&comma; Lagos Command spokesman and made available to NAOSRE&comma; Talabi was received on arrival by the Command’s Comptroller of Immigration Service&comma; CIS&comma; Bauchi Aliyu&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Addressing officers and men of the Command&comma; Talabi commended the Aliyu led  team for carrying out their duties without attracting complaints from the public&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She warned officers against revealing any official information that is meant to be treated as confidential&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She advised officers to adopt &&num;8220&semi;a need to know basis principle&&num;8221&semi; in managing information&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In addition&comma; Talabi pointed out that Lagos Command has the highest number of personnel in the country&comma; a fact that calls for utmost professionalism in the overall interest of Nigeria in line with the administrative policies of President Muhammadu Buhari and Comptroller General of Customs&comma; Colonel Hammed Alli&comma; ret’d&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The ACG mandated officers to be watchful for fraudulent documents and revealed that the Service is currently implementing electronic-powered mechanisms that&&num;8217&semi;ll make it easier to identify fraudulent documents&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Earlier&comma; the Lagos Command CIS&comma; in his address&comma; dutifully gave a detailed account to the Zonal Coordinator with specific regards to the challenges and developments in the Command&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He revealed that his first project from the moment he arrived was to improve the condition of LSC&&num;8217&semi;s Provisional and Annex offices&comma; a task he disclosed has been accomplished strictly through Corporate Social Responsibility&comma; CRS&comma; supports from friends of the Service&period; The CIS also revealed that he was able to construct both the Quarter Guard and Parade Ground through the same donations&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Aliyu further disclosed that there is an imminent plan of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">International Organization for Migration<&sol;a> to fully fund and oversee the construction of a Personnel Training and Resource Centre for the Lagos Command&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He unveiled plans to build additional toilet and bathroom facilities to augment the existing ones&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;CIS Aliyu informed the Zonal Coordinator that he has formed a committee that is presently working on the development of a compendium that would offer a concise interpretative collection of the most frequently violated Immigration laws for the sensitization of stakeholders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He noted that the outcome of his visit to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has birth the governor’s generous heart of donating land that can accommodate the construction of the Service Headquarters structure in Lagos&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He revealed that his persistent verbal and written requests have resulted in the setting up of a Security Forum headed by the Secretary to the State Government for Intel and ideas sharing amongst security agencies in the state&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He stated the proposal he submitted to the Governor&&num;8217&semi;s Office for the planned mop-up and repatriation operation of irregular migrants residing in the state&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The proposal is a direct response to the concern raised by stakeholders during the meeting chaired by the Governor to address the menace of motorbike riders operating in the state&comma;” he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; he stated that despite the positive results of his efforts&comma; more still needs to be done&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The CIS&comma; therefore&comma; tabled a number of requests for the ACG&&num;8217&semi;s attention to improve the service delivery capacity of the Command&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He requested the facilitation of the deployment of junior officers and drivers as well as follow-up by her office to facilitate the completion of the Command building project&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He also requested support for the proposed inclusion of the E-Migrant registration slip as a checklist for resident permit applications&semi; the setting up of a Music Band and the renovation of the Command Holding Centre&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The ACG however&comma; promised to support within available resources and called for more commitment to duties&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;