Over 148,000 passports have been awaiting collection nationwide since 2020, according to data obtained by Saturday PUNCH from the Nigeria Immigration Service.
“We will have to discuss whether or not they are reusable. But for now, we have precisely 148,000 uncollected passports nationwide from different locations,” he said.
He said, “The Comptroller-General has sent out top officers of the rank of Assistant Comptrollers-Generals. That’s to show you how serious the assignment is. They will go to each zone to ensure that these passports get to their owners by whatever means they can devise. “This involves creating awareness in local languages and local radio stations, town unions for people who applied for passports at some time, who probably think that the passports were not issued to come and check for their passports and collect them.”
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