The Nigeria Immigration Service processed and issued at least 9.31 million passports from 2015 to 2022.
Saturday PUNCHAkuneme also noted that the NIS could not reach the owners, some of who input incorrect contact details at the point of registration.
He revealed that the Comptroller-General, Isa Idris, had deployed a team of senior officers nationwide to reach the owners of the abandoned passports. The spokesperson, however, revealed that passports whose owners could not be reached at the end of the exercise would not be destroyed as they remain the property of the Federal Government.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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