The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Thursday inaugurated 108 Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU) desk officers across its formations nationwide to strengthen integrity and accountability within the service.
The Comptroller General of Immigration, Kemi Nandap, described the inauguration as a major step toward strengthening ethical governance within the Service.
“We are gathered not merely to inaugurate officers, but to entrench a proactive, grassroots architecture for ethical governance,” she said.
The 108 officers comprise 12 deployed to the Service Headquarters and 96 drawn from state commands. While the headquarters-based officers were sworn in at the ceremony, others are expected to take their oath of allegiance at their respective commands.
Nandap said the officers were selected based on proven integrity, courage, and sound judgment and would play a critical role in promoting accountability across formations.
“You are not mere additions to the establishment. You are ethical champions, standard bearers, and first responders within your respective formations,” she said.
She outlined their core responsibilities to include enlightenment, deterrence, and punishment, noting that the officers would drive ethics education, serve as confidential channels for reporting misconduct, and ensure that established violations attract appropriate sanctions.
She also urged formation heads to support the desk officers and provide an enabling environment for them to carry out their duties.
“Their mandate is not to undermine command authority, but to reinforce it. See them as partners in building formations defined by credibility and pride,” she said.
Representatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission and the Nigerian Army pledged collaboration with the Service in strengthening transparency and internal controls.
Speaking on behalf of the desk officers, R.A. Bashiru said the Service’s digital reforms had “operationalised integrity” and reinforced its zero-tolerance stance on corruption.
