NO fewer than 1,300 officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, retrenched in 2006, have appealed to the Federal Government for the payment of their entitlements.

In a statement issued in Ilorin by Alhaji Abdullahi Sulaiman,  the officers said that government’s inability to pay them had brought untold hardships to their families.

The statement said that 40 of the affected officers were from Kwara.The retirees stated that their gratuity and pension were not based on the Consolidated Para-military Salary Structure (COMPASS).

Sulaiman said that this was unlike their colleagues in Customs and Prisons Services who were also affected by the same restructuring.

He said that those categories of officers were being paid, based on the COMPASS structure, noting that all entreaties made by the affected officers nationwide to the immigration authorities had proved abortive.