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Flood:NIS confirm 64 personnel displaced, head office submerge in
Bayelsa

Authorities of the Bayelsa State command of the Nigerian
Immigration Service (NIS) has confirmed that its office headquarters along the
Bayelsa Palm area in Yenagoa, the State capital was submerge and sixty-four of its Personnel displaced by the recent flood disaster in the State.

The Comptroller of NIS in Bayelsa, Sunday James, who confirmed
the development while conducting newsmen around the office headquarters,
however said the command was prepared and all necessary documents are safe and
office operations not disturbed as they relocated to the Okaka area for smooth
operations of the command.

Comptroller James also pointed the 64 impacted personnel of
the Command have been taken care of by the command, saying that the national headquarters
of the command have agreed to assist in embarking on the infrastructural upgrade
of the office headquarters in the state.

He said though the Bayelsa flood is a natural occurrence which
is expected to open a new chapter for the people and state,” Inspite of the
flood, no personnel of the NIS stayed away from his or her duty post. All
through the flood, every officers of the command were on ground as essential
duty workers”.

Meanwhile, the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service Isa Jere Idris has directed the Comptroller of Immigration Service Bayelsa State James Sunday to visit the IDP Camp and donate drinking water to the Internally Displaced Persons for them to have clean drinking water both adults and children.

The directive was carried out on tuesday at OX- BOW LAKE IDP camp where thousands of IDPs families were camped by the Bayelsa State Government for temporary shelter,the Flood which had rendered several families homeless.

According to the NIS, the gesture from the Comptroller General is a sign of goodwill from the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service Isa Jere Idris to the Officers and Men of the Bayelsa Command and also directed that the affected 64 personnel of the service affected by the flood be taken into consideration.

A team of experts are to visit Bayelsa Command from the service headquarters,Abuja to access the state of the command flooded to enable the Comptroller General take an inform decision after reporting back.

The Comptroller of Immigration Service Bayelsa State James Sunday,who expressed appreciation to the Leadership of the service for directing at an appropriate time evacuation of all service movable assets and sensitive documents before the flood came into the command, said the action has saved the service from lost of assets and sensitive documents, that are not recoverable if they were trapped,the service is operating fully at a new location in the heart of YENAGOA pending the receding of the flood and fumigation to certify the environment healthy for habitation and work.

He also warned Officers and Men to avoid any attempt to be away from duty on AWOL or otherwise which may lead to summary disciplinary action or dismissal as work continues and supervisors will be held responsible for any staff absent during headcount schedule for Friday.

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