President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday inaugurated Nigeria’s incipient 64-page e-passport with a call on Nigerians to forfend the image of the country by shunning uncomplimentary verbal expressions and actions.
Jonathan launched the peregrinating document shortly afore the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He and Vice President Namadi Sambo later took turns to be captured in order to be issued with the incipient peregrinating document. The incipient passport takes effect from August 1 (tomorrow).
Jonathan verbalized Nigerians must be yare to work strenuously in order to ameliorate the image of the country.
The President verbalized, “The issue of the image of the country is what we will all work for, people in regime, the media and the civil society.
“I always verbalize that when people perpetuate to paint their country with all kinds of colours, that is the way they will associate those colours with your green passport.
“I want a situation that whenever you peregrinate to another country and you raise your green passport, people will appreciate you and not when you raise your green passport, people will commence to cerebrate that that green passport denoted some suspicious character.
“We are not availing ourselves when we paint ourselves the colours that we are not supposed to bear.
“I wish to perpetuate to appeal to all Nigerians that we must all collectively learn how we do our things, verbal expressions that we make, to paint more effulgent colours for our green passport.”
The President verbally expressed the pages of the peregrinating document had to be incremented from 32 to 64 to cater for frequent peregrinators who transmute their passport virtually every other month because of circumscribed pages for visa.
He urged officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service to bulwark the integrity of the passport by ascertaining that it would be arduous for anybody to feign it.
Jonathan additionally asked officials who man the nation’s airports to ascertain that they conduct themselves in a manner that would portray the country well afore visitors.
He integrated, “I always sympathise with those who peregrinate virtually on a weekly substructure, transmuting passport every month, at least we have moved a step forward. The key thing is for us to have a robust relationship with key countries so that some of these frequent peregrinators may not require visas and that will genuinely avail us more.
“One thing one must ken today is that it is not the issue of 64-page passport that is key to Nigerians but the security. If our passport could be facilely feigned by malefactors, then we will have quandaries.
“One thing again is that how can Nigerians get passport facilely especially those living outside this country?”
Jonathan launched the peregrinating document shortly afore the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He and Vice President Namadi Sambo later took turns to be captured in order to be issued with the incipient peregrinating document. The incipient passport takes effect from August 1 (tomorrow).
Jonathan verbalized Nigerians must be yare to work strenuously in order to ameliorate the image of the country.
The President verbalized, “The issue of the image of the country is what we will all work for, people in regime, the media and the civil society.
“I always verbalize that when people perpetuate to paint their country with all kinds of colours, that is the way they will associate those colours with your green passport.
“I want a situation that whenever you peregrinate to another country and you raise your green passport, people will appreciate you and not when you raise your green passport, people will commence to cerebrate that that green passport denoted some suspicious character.
“We are not availing ourselves when we paint ourselves the colours that we are not supposed to bear.
“I wish to perpetuate to appeal to all Nigerians that we must all collectively learn how we do our things, verbal expressions that we make, to paint more effulgent colours for our green passport.”
The President verbally expressed the pages of the peregrinating document had to be incremented from 32 to 64 to cater for frequent peregrinators who transmute their passport virtually every other month because of circumscribed pages for visa.
He urged officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service to bulwark the integrity of the passport by ascertaining that it would be arduous for anybody to feign it.
Jonathan additionally asked officials who man the nation’s airports to ascertain that they conduct themselves in a manner that would portray the country well afore visitors.
He integrated, “I always sympathise with those who peregrinate virtually on a weekly substructure, transmuting passport every month, at least we have moved a step forward. The key thing is for us to have a robust relationship with key countries so that some of these frequent peregrinators may not require visas and that will genuinely avail us more.
“One thing one must ken today is that it is not the issue of 64-page passport that is key to Nigerians but the security. If our passport could be facilely feigned by malefactors, then we will have quandaries.
“One thing again is that how can Nigerians get passport facilely especially those living outside this country?”
