The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has said that a total of N13, 361, 621,621.77 was generated from issuance of passport in 2016.
The disclosure was made Thursday in Abuja by the Comptroller-General (CG) of NIS, Mr. Muhammad Babandede, during an oversight visit by members of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Interior.
This was as the Hon. Jagaba Adams Jagaba-led Committee threatened to review contracts awarded to some expatriate firms.
Briefing the committee on the performance of Immigration’s budget last year, Babandede noted that most of the NIS’ products, were procured from local firms. He added that the Service achieved over ninety nine per cent budget implementation.
According to Babandede: “Even our arms, we bought from the Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria (DICON). We generated N13, 361, 621, 621.77 from passports as local revenue.”
On the contentious award of contracts to foreign firms, the CG explained that “these agreements were signed between the Minister and the various” firms.
He, however, said the Minister of Interior, Lt-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), had constituted a panel to review the contracts in dispute.
Meanwhile, the House Committee on Interior, has vowed to end the practice of outsourcing services. Jagaba, who vowed to raise the issue before the House, came down hard on one of the foreign firms, Contec.