By Flowerbudnews
Enugu: No fewer than 55 newly-recruited officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have graduated and 52 senior officers promoted to various positions at the NIS Enugu State Command.
The Assistant Comptroller General, Mrs Azuka Halliday, gave the numbers during the passing out parade of the newly-recruited personnel and decoration of promoted officers on Thursday at the Command.
According to her, the total number of the graduated personnel comprised 27 males and 28 females while the promoted personnels were promoted to different positions.
Those newly-promoted ranks include: one Deputy Comptroller of Immigration, eight Assistant Comptroller, seven Chief Superintendent, two Superintendent, 16 Deputy Superintendent, 12 Assistant Superintendent l and six Assistant Superintendent II.
Halliday urged the newly-recruited personnel to see their enlistment in the service as a call to duty to serve their fatherland with all sense of patriotism, discipline, determination, selflessness, and integrity.
She advised them to consider themselves privileged to be among the recruited officers and advised them to be more proactive and committed in their duties.
The Assistant Comptroller General said that the promoted personnel had done so noble in their former ranks for being promoted to their new positions.
She said that a lot and the best were expected from them.
“This is the period to ensure that we manage our borders, we should ensure we do our best with all form of transparency.
” I charge you to continue in your good work, work hard and show yourselves worthy of these new ranks,” she said.
In his remarks, Air Commodore Sylvester Eyoma of the Nigeria Air Force, Enugu, urged the promoted personnel to always mentor the junior officers so as to promote and build a good institution.
“Mentorship is what we are lacking in our institutions today. I charge you to consider it as a matter of necessity and try to impact in them what they should be,” he said.
The Instructor of the training, Mr Nweke John, commended the newly-recruited personnel for participating well during the period of the training.
Nweke said that there was a challenge at the beginning of the training as they were slow in learning but the challenge was over when they realised that it was not business as usual.
Some of the newly-recruited expressed their happiness for being among those recruited for the job.
Mr Ezukoke Jerry, an Immigration Assistant lll, said that the immigration job needed consistency and honesty, urged the government to always employ people that merited to be employed.
Miss Eunice Ugonna expressed her joy for partaking in the training, promised to put her effort in the job. (Flowerbudnews)
