Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has said he would work towards reducing the emergency response time of the Federal Fire Service centres to below 15 minutes.
Tunji-Ojo, while announcing his vision for reforming critical sectors under the interior ministry, said the planned reforms hinge on the “Renewed Hope” agenda of President Bola Tinubu.
He also assured Nigerians of the government’s commitment to revolutionising passport processing to bring ease to applicants.
Tunji-Ojo further directed officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service to treat applicants with “utmost respect” in all its passport offices, including those outside the country.
His words:
“We would do everything within our power as a ministry to ensure that there are key reforms in our fire service centres, turn around the response time of our fire service to under fifteen minutes.
“I assure Nigerians of our desire to proceed with reforms in our immigration service, such that Nigerians can be treated with respect and that we get to unbuckle all bottlenecks of passport collections and see other issues associated with immigration services, in general, are under control.
“I also would like to give assurance that under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we would do everything humanly possible to reform our custodial centres, such as the decongestion of those centres, of course, with beaming life, and hope we’d groom inmates and help inmates to ensure proper re-integration into the society”.
