Boko Haram militants have attacked a joint security position near Muna, Borno State, killing an officer of the Nigeria Immigration Service and injuring soldiers attached to the 195 Battalion, immigration sources told SaharaReporters on Tuesday.
The attack was said to have happened at about 2:00 a.m. on November 30, when insurgents stormed the “Charly Company” position, opening fire on personnel on duty.
Immigration colleagues said reinforcement arrived quickly, forcing the attackers to break formation and flee into the bush.
Colleagues identified the killed immigration officer as Assistant Immigration Officer IA II Lucky, a member of the NIS Batch 13 contingent of the Nigeria Immigration Service, deployed under Operation Hadin Kai.
One officer said the casualty underscores a larger institutional dilemma involving Homeland Security deployments, not personal subplots.
“Immigration officers are not trained for frontline combat,” a source said.
An angry immigration officer, who insisted on speaking anonymously “due to the sensitivity”, told Sahara Reporters that immigration personnel were now being placed where conventional combat capacity is demanded without matching institutional gear.
He said, “Imagine immigration officers are being used in a frontline battle with Boko Haram when we are not trained like soldiers.
“We are given only two magazines to defend ourselves. We are carrying only two magazines!”
Another colleague echoed the deployment fears, describing the deaths (focused on defence capacity, not personal politics):
“This batch alone has lost almost four men in this operation. We are overstretched, under-equipped and exposed.”
Senior immigration personnel are now demanding immediate intervention from the Controller General of Immigration to protect NIS staff deployed to conflict zones.
Multiple immigration insiders raised concerns about the credibility of the duty roster and rotation pathways, alleging that some personnel were shielded from high-risk postings.
An immigration officer wrote in protest remarks monitored online, “The CG should caution his G1 and admin.
“It looks like they favour some people and leave the rest of us to face the toughest assignments.”
“We will come back to that issue,” he added, signalling that internal administrative challenges around rotation lanes will be revisited based on qualification and equal roster treatment, not personal alliances.
As of the time of filing this report, the Nigerian Army has not issued any official statement on the incident.
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