Downsized Immigration officers send SOS to Buhari

By Usman Shuaibu

The downsized immigration officers have sent Save Our Soul (SOS) to president Muhammadu Buhari for the payment of their wages.

Speaking on behalf of the downsized immigration officers on Saturday in Abuja, the retired

DSI Arma Yau Ninge Mashi said they were suffering in silence since their retirement on the 31st of January, 2007.

His words: “The forms of payment on hold are severance package allowance, repatriation allowance, domestic servant allowance and monthly payment on the situation presented as a gross under payment between we staff of Immigration Service and the Customs service/Correctional Service who were treated the same process of downsizing”.

He appealed to president Muhammadu Buhari to give directive to the comptrollerGeneral of Immigration to pay incidental arrears in short payment from the period of the exercise till date so as to redeem their trust in Nigeria.

Mashi, however, recalled that the former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun had given order for the payment of their arrears, as he said the order was emasculate.