Immigration employees to take ACC issue to the Controller

Immigration employees have decided to take up the matter of the summoning of many employees to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for the investigation into the controversial Border Control System project and the laptops brought in for the project, with the new Controller Dr Mohamed Ali. A prominent official of the Immigration Department claimed that as large numbers of employees are being summoned to the ACC every day, employees have had adverse psychological effects.

“The summoning chit had been delivered to 15 employees even yesterday. The chit is like an order,” official added.

“An employee had fainted after being summoned to the ACC for the investigation yesterday, who was later carried out by another employee.”

The official further detailed that the employees would meet the Controller sometime today and raise complain about the emotional state of apprehension and fear facing the employees.

“Investigating the matter is a different thing. However, ACC had relayed a lot of false information to the media. For example they told the media that the laptops had been sold, we had objected to give up the laptops, we locked up places with ACC officials inside. Those are things that we simply did not do,” official said.

“The laptops given to us do not belong to the Immigration but had been given by Nexbiz for training. The laptops had barcodes and inventory numbers of the company. So how can we just handover the laptops even on orders of the ACC without authorization of a superior.”

Official alleged that the Home Ministry had not made any efforts to “ease the apprehension.”

“Home Ministry being our parent institution has not extended any cooperation to us in this issue. Even the Civil Service Commission had failed to cooperate with the many civil servants here,” official added.

Official stressed that no top officials would be involved and only low ranking employees would take up the issues with the Controller.
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