The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Muhammad Babandede, says that plans are underway for the domestication of the production of the Nigerian e-passport.
Babandede disclosed this when members of the House of Representatives Committee on Interior came on an oversight visit yesterday in Abuja.
He said that the NIS was working round the clock with the support of the Federal Government to start the local production of the e-passports through the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company Limited. by 2018.
The comptroller-general said that the measure was to save cost, ensure security of critical data base and create more jobs for Nigerians.
Earlier, Chairman, House Committee on Interior, Adams Jagaba, condemned the use of foreign companies for the production of the passport and other services, saying that the foreign companies go away with more than 70 percent of the revenue generated from the production of the document while the Federal Government take less than 30 percent.
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