{"id":275880,"date":"2023-06-23T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T08:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=275880"},"modified":"2023-06-23T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T08:32:26","slug":"97000-passports-uncollected-across-nigeria-immigration-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/06\/23\/97000-passports-uncollected-across-nigeria-immigration-service\/","title":{"rendered":"97,000 passports uncollected across Nigeria \u2013 Immigration Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says about 97,000 passport booklets issued were uncollected in the 36 states nationwide including Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n<p>The Service Public Relations Officer, (SPRO) Comptroller of Immigration, Tony Akuneme, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Akuneme said that the service recently found out that Lagos State had half of the uncollected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/05\/22\/applicants-to-get-home-delivery-of-passport-soon-fg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said that there was also a danger that half of the owners of the uncollected passports could not be reached due to a lack of proper documentation because of third-party involvement.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the essence of a state of emergency declaration was to draw the attention of the media so they could deepen the process for the service as a lot of people do not know if their passports were ready for collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them engaged agents to help them in their passport processing and these agents might be doing this for a lot of persons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey end up dropping wrong contacts and thereby making it difficult to reach out to the owners of these passports when they are ready for collection. This is a big challenge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Acting Comptroller General, NIS, Caroline Adepoju, recently declared a state of emergency on passport issues across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The SPRO said that the service recently found out that most applicants\u2019 complaints also bother on some human factors and technical factors which included the slow speed of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the CG didn\u2019t want to leave anyone in doubt as to the issue of passport processing being her core area of interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how she came about that term of declaring a state of emergency in the passport issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the acting CG assumed office, she made it very clear that she was going to focus on passport reforms and staff welfare, \u201che said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Lagos state Governor is willing to collaborate with the CG in terms of expanding the passport services in Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we went to Lagos State Governor to help in terms of giving us office space where we can set up front desk offices and immediately, the governor was very positive in his response<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLagos is a tourist place and immigration has a key role to play in the mind of anybody visiting the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it was a welcome development and you can see that the state of emergency that was declared is already yielding fruits as the governor accepted CGs request on land allocation to build staff quarters in Lagos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Akuneme said that the service, however, needed the media to tell Nigerians that people should not think there were no passport booklets.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThere are booklets issued that are not collected. 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