FG begins verification for payment of severance to disengaged NIS workers in northwest

From Mustapha Adamu, Kano

The Bureau of Public Service Reforms, BPSR, has commenced verification exercise for payment of severance package to disengaged staff of Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, for Northwest region in Kano state.
PEOPLES DAILY recalls that the NIS, carried out severance exercise for 2006/2007 by disengaging 1,330 officers in various cadres and levels in accordance with the Guidelines released by the Bureau of Public Service BPSR.
Addressing journalists shortly after declaring the the verification exercise open in Kano on Wednesday, the Director General of BPSR, Dasuki Ibrahim Arabi said it is in continuation of the efforts to conclude the lingering issues associated with the severance exercise across all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs and Federal Government owned parastatals.
According to Arabi, a team of officers from Stakeholder-MDAs in charge of collection, collation, computation, verification and payment of severance benefits are in Kano to carry out the exercise.
He said the exercise is to determine the extent of short payment and non-payment to the disengaged staff of the NIS and other Federal MDAs/Parastatals with the aim of processing and payment of the difference.
The DG explained that the team had earlier been in Lagos (South West), Asaba (South- South), Enugu (South-East) and Gombe (North-East) to verify the disengaged workers.
He added that the team, in Kano for the North-West States would verify the disengaged officers from Sokoto, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kebbi, Katsina, Zamfara and Kano states, scheduled to be verified from Monday 29,January to Friday 2, February, 2024 at the headquarters of Nigeria Correctional Service, NCS.
While urging the beneficiaries to arm arm themselves with the relevant documents that are required for the exercise, the DG assured swift payment of the benefits immediately after the verification.
“Kindly be informed that Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) was one of the Federal Government Organizations that carried out severance exercise in the year 2006/2007.
“This was due to reforms by the Federal Government to rejig the workforce at that time. During the exercise NIS disengaged a total of One Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty (1,330) officers in various cadres and levels in accordance with the Guidelines released by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR). You were only part of over One Hundred Thousand Officers and other workers disengaged from the Federal Public Service.”