The Nigeria Immigration Provider, NIS, Ogun State Command, and the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Newshounds, NUJ, Ogun State Council, have pledged to give a boost to collaboration to take on human trafficking, abnormal migration and border crimes within the state.
The dedication was once made on Tuesday all through a courtesy discuss with via the manager participants of the Correspondents’ Chapel to the Command’s headquarters in Abeokuta.
Talking all through the discuss with, the Comptroller of Immigration, Ogun State Command, Ganiyu Oladele Olubunmi, mentioned efficient provider supply via safety businesses is based closely at the media to achieve the general public.
Olubunmi described the NIS and the media as dual companions in growth, noting that the Immigration Provider can’t succeed in its operational mandates in isolation.
“NIS and the media are companions in growth. We’re a provider supplier, and for these types of products and services, there should be a channel. This is the place reporters are available in.
“We can’t do it on my own, and we would love this collaboration to proceed. My doorways are open for any inquiries in Ogun State,” he said.
He defined that the media stays the bridge between safety businesses and the general public, and probably the greatest car for projecting the command’s anti-crime drives, border control tasks and administrative updates.
Highlighting the command’s core operational priorities, the comptroller mentioned it automatically engages in sensitization in opposition to abnormal migration, human trafficking and trans-border crimes throughout border communities and concrete centres, however such efforts would stay useless with out the powerful achieve of the media.
“We additionally interact in sensitization on abnormal migration, human trafficking, and others. All this consciousness can’t be efficient with out the media,” he mentioned.
Previous, the Chairman of the Correspondents’ Chapel, Comrade Yetunde Fatungase, lauded the NIS for its frontline function in safeguarding nationwide borders and regulating migration.
Fatungase mentioned reporters recognise the contributions of the Provider to nationwide safety, public protection, passport issuance and control of international nationals, and known as for structured channels for suggested data sharing.
She reaffirmed the chapel’s dedication to moral journalism, fact-checking and balanced reporting to assist fight pretend information, explain border laws and make stronger public protection throughout Ogun State.