Immigration Needs 25,000 New Recruits - Paradang

Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (CGI), David Paradang, has said the NIS urgently needs to engage minimum of 5,000 new officers yearly for the next fives years to be able to meet manpower deficit facing the paramilitary service.
Recruitment of about 4,000 personnel into the service last April ran into major hitch, resulting in stampede and death of about 16 persons across the country.
Paradang reiterated that NIS staff strength of 22,321 was grossly inadequate to meet statutory obligation of the service, contain irregular migrants and meaningfully contribute its quota in the battle against insurgents and organized crimes across the nation’s 1,475 uncharted borders.

Paradang was addressing officers and stakeholders from across the world at this year’s Annual Conference of the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service at the weekend in Abuja where he also canvassed increased budgetary allocation and improved operational facilities to enable the paramilitary agency meet its mandate and compete with its peers globally.
He sought approval of government for the NIS to retain a percentage of funds generated by the agency so as to meet increasing challenges.
Such funds, he stressed, would be deployed in acquiring surveillance aircraft, and modern communication gadgets that ensure efficient control of the nation’s borders.