Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede, has illegally diverted N23m given to the agency for officers as palliative during the COVID-19 outbreak.
It was gathered that the fund, which was received by the agency, was about to be disbursed to all officers when Babandede diverted the funds.
He subsequently oversaw the disbursement of the funds to some selected persons, who are his cronies within the agency.
In documents exclusively obtained revealed the money was distributed to 293 officers on the order of Babandede.
The money, which was paid by Remita, was labelled as overtime and extra hours payment for the 293 officers.
The 293 officers selected by the CG received the sum of N70,000 each.
“Being payment for overtime extra hour spent to the above named officer and 292 others for the processing of capital payment vouchers for 2020 First quarter Capital Allocation Vide attached brief and approval on page 71 – 79, file No: ACCTS/ADM/CAPT/460,” the documents read partly.
