The Nigeria Immigration Service has suspended an Assistant Superintendent of Immigration II Okpravero Ufuoma for allegedly soliciting financial gratification from a traveller.
NIS Comptroller General Mrs Kemi Nandap made this known in a statement issued by the Service Public Relations Officer Mr Kenneth Udo on Thursday in Abuja.
According to Nandap, the officer’s conduct captured in a video circulating on social media does not reflect the values and ethics of professionalism upheld by the NIS.
She condemned the alleged misconduct saying that it undermined the ongoing reforms aimed at enhancing service standards.
She however, assured all that the officer had been indefinitely suspended pending the outcome of disciplinary procedures in accordance with the law and Public Service Rules.
She said NIS received a video currently circulating on social media titled “This is how immigration officers treat tourists in Nigeria,” showing one of its officers soliciting financial gratification from a traveller.
“This disgraceful act is not a representation of our commitment to hospitality, reception, and courtesy.
