FG is considering public-private partnership to set up more passport offices – Aregbesola

Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola has said the federal government could consider a public-private partnership to set up more passport offices to curb congestion in other centers.

Aregbesola revealed this while inaugurating a new passport office in the Alimosho area of ​​Lagos, to facilitate the application, processing and collection of Nigerian international passports.

Aregbesola said in his address note that due to funding, the federal government might consider a public-private partnership to set up more passport offices to curb congestion in other centers.

Aregbesola added that the office would address the shortfall and help relieve the burden on the passport centers of Ikoyi, Festac and Alausa, which is to be expected. “We definitely need more of this in Lagos,” he said.

Jere Idris, Controller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), described the passport front office as a “legacy project” that will bring efficient services to Lagos and the surrounding area.

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“The passport office remains a no-go area for touts, passport extortionists, false breeder documents and all sorts of unwanted elements.

“I wish to warn that the long arm of the law and its full force will be visited upon any person who, by act or omission, violates the passport offenses stipulated in Section 10(1a-h) of the Immigration Act, 2015.”

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Anthony Akuneme, the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), public relations officer, noted during the opening of the new office that Aregbesola said at least 14 passport front offices would be set up in Lagos as the state receives 50 percent of all applications across the country. country takes care of.

The event also included the inauguration of the newly built Lagos command headquarters of the NOS near Alagbon, Ikoyi.