The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) on Tuesday said about 140,000 international passports are still uncollected nationwide.
Comptroller General of Immigration, Isah Jere Idris, while announcing the deployment of top senior officers, said Lagos topped the list of uncollected passports with about 40,000 produced passports yet to be collected by applicants.
He said other zones with higher numbers of uncollected passports where the ACGs were deployed were Benin and Port Harcourt Zonal Offices of Immigration to ramp up the collection of the produced passports.
This was contained in a statement issued yesterday by the Public Relations Officer of the NIS, Deputy Comptroller of Immigration, Anthony N. Akuneme.
Mr Akuneme also said about 40,000 of the total 140,000 are in the Alausa Passport office .
According to the service spokesperson, majority of the uncollected passports had wrong phone contacts and untraceable addresses.
Mr Akuneme implored applicants to process their international passports by themselves, using correct details and without involving racketeers.
