She also warned immigration officers against passport racketeering and other unprofessional conduct, stressing that erring officers within the agency will be sanctioned.
According to a statement made available to our correspondent on Sunday, Adepoju made this known during a parade at the Ikoyi passport office.
The statement quoted Adepoju as urging immigration officers to adhere to, “passport processing procedures and issues of border security.”
“All passport offices under the leadership of the passport control officers must ensure that all passport applicants must be served promptly and with dignity. There should be no delay in any passport offices and no applicants or Nigerians must be put under any hideous task or maltreatment.
“I decided to focus on personnel welfare and passport issues because these two areas have witnessed lots of complaints from both Nigerians and personnel of the immigration service. We will constitute more passport point offices, especially in Lagos where the population is high to address the issue of passports.”
On his part, the Passport control officer Deputy Comptroller Sanni Jega stressed that no applicants should patronise any touts but rather do their application on their own by going online.
Jega pointed out that there is no scarcity of passport booklets.
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