“He signed salary for life for CGs” – Tunji-Ojo says Tinubu backs retired immigration chiefs

Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has said President Bola Tinubu ended promotion backlogs in the services under the ministry and approved lifetime salaries for retired Comptrollers-General and Deputy Comptrollers-General of Immigration, Punch reports.

Tunji-Ojo spoke on Friday at the closing ceremony of the Specialised Border Control and Immigration Management System (BCIMS) Training at the Immigration Headquarters in Abuja.

He said no fewer than 50,000 personnel had gained new ranks and offices within three years. He added that recruitment had increased, with no fewer than 40,000 new recruits taken in at once. “When it comes to salary increment, Mr President has done it. In terms of hazard allowances, peculiar allowance, he also did,” he said.

On pensions, he said: “Previously, CGs had a pension of about N130,000, it was not encouraging. But what did the president do? He signed, and approved salary for life for CGs and DCGs.”

He added: “This president has cared for the services more than any president in the history of Nigeria. He has given you his all.”

The minister said Tinubu asks only that personnel do their jobs well and make Nigerians happy. He described the President as a visionary whose Renewed Hope Agenda is building a system that will outlast his time in office.

“President Bola Tinubu has never been about the immediate, but the future. He understands that the most prosperous nations do not boil, cook, and eat their seeds, they plant them,” he said.