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The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, says few corrupt officials are undermining the efforts of the Nigeria Immigration Service at sanitising process and bringing integrity to passports application.
Aregbesola made this known in Oyo Town while inaugurating the NIS passport front office on Tuesday evening.
The minister said that NIS did not, at any given time, experience shortage of passport booklets, adding it was “a lie and an excuse by few corrupt officials of the service to extort the applicants”.
“One of the challenges facing NIS as regards passports application are the few corrupt officials of the service who are undermining the efforts of the service at sanitising process and bringing integrity to passports application.
“These unscrupulous people are making the situation difficult by the day, if people did not tolerate them, they would not exist again.
“They are the one spreading the rumour that there are no booklets…
