The Director General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms, BPSR, Dasuki Arabi, yesterday disclosed that after 17 years, the government has resolved the outstanding severance benefits of 1,330 Nigerian Immigration Service officers disengaged in 2006/2007 reform programme.
He disclosed this at the end of a verification and payment exercise of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) severed staff in Abuja, commending the government under the leadership of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu for its unwavering commitment to resolving the long-standing issue.
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) is one of the over 250 Federal Parastatals that was affected by the severance policy of year 2006/2007 reform programme of the government across the Public Service. In the course of the severance exercise in year 2006/2007, Nigerian Immigration Service disengaged a total of 1,330 of its officers in various cadres and grade levels.
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According to the DG, “This, did not go down well with the disengaged officers. Complaints, agitations and petitions were raised to several quarters agitating for the reversal of the disengagement. When the reversal became impossible because it was a government policy that needed to be fulfilled and implemented for the good of the country, other agitations were again raised.
“Agitations such as effecting the salary scale of CONPASS as against HAPSS to be used as it was used for sister agencies such as Nigerian custom Service and Nigerian Prisons Service. This further created more agitations and complaints. All efforts to resolve the problem became a hard Nut to crack. The problem became a conundrum and lingered for a span of about seventeen (17) years without a resolve.”