There is rising tension among officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) following the alleged plot by the outgoing
Comptroller General Caroline Wuraola Adepoju to install her choice of a 2022 promoted Comptroller promoted to ACG in 2023 in one(1)year without interview to retire her seniors in the service at the expiration of her extended tenure on the 28th of February, 2024.
Caroline who was to have retired on the May 31, 2023 got two fraudulent extensions and will be retiring on the 28th February 2024.
The succession plot, according to sources at the NIS headquarters, is allegedly backed by the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo and without due regard to the Nigerian Immigration Service act.
Investigations revealed that the outgoing Comptroller General Caroline Wuraola Adepoju is plotting to install one Adeola Adesokan who was recently promoted to the rank of Comptroller in 2022 and a quick fix promotion to Assistant Comptroller General in 2023, by the Interior minister, Olubunmi Tunji Ojo, in a questionable manner.
Consequently, if the plot scales through, eight Assistant Controllers General serving at the service eight zonal offices across Nigeria and twelve at the service headquarters and seven Deputy Comptroller General a total of twenty seven (27) senior and experienced officers not due for retirement will be prematurely retired.
Sources told newsmen that the top echelon of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) are sitting on a keg of gun powder due to the continuous disregard to rules and constitution of the country.
It was pointed out that the purported successor being sponsored by the outgoing Comptroller General Caroline Wuraola Adepoju and the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji Ojo is considered incompetent and would further put a wedge in the service.
They also pointed out that the outgoing Comptroller General Caroline Wuraola Adepoju, whose extension ends on the 28th February 2024 after the actual retirement of 31st of May, 2023 having served 35 years and has gotten two extensions before he confirmed appointment as Comptroller General of the Immigration Service.
“Since she got confirmed, she stopped doing her executive assignment, rather travels all round lobbying for extension, on discovering she has exhausted her tenure she is trying to impose an incompetent junior officer on her seniors.
“A total of twenty seven(27) senior, experienced officers not due for retirement will be prematurely retired for an incompetent junior comptroller promoted to Assistant Comptroller General under one(1)year, what a disaster waiting to happen.”
It was also gathered that top Senators and members of the National Assembly have been notified of the development and are keenly watching.
“Mr President should also intervene to remove the minister and not extend the present Comptroller General tenure ending on the 28th February 2024. Nigerians are watching.”
