CITING
threats to security, the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Friday in
Akure, Ondo State capital announced the arrest of 147 illegal immigrants
from various spots in the metropolis for repatriation to their
respective home countries.
The arrested illegal aliens, who were paraded by the service at its
state office, are said to be Nigerien and Chadian immigrants who entered
Nigeria without valid traveling documents.
The state Comptroller of NIS, Adetola Sessi disclosed that the illegal
immigrants were picked up by his men at the Saabo and Shasha areas of
the state capital and that they would be repatriated to their countries
of origin immediately because they were constituting great security
risks especially when it was discovered that they had no means of
livelihood.
He said two of them attacked and injured some immigration officers while trying to resist arrest on Thursday.
Sessi said the illegal immigrants had been living in the state for a
very long time and that it took his men diligent surveillance to fish
them out their hideouts adding, “The arrest of the illegal immigrants
was in line with the resolve of the incumbent Comptroller-General of the
NIS to rid the country of persons who are in the country without valid
travelling documents.
“Most of them entered Nigeria through illegal routes and settle down
among our people, creating problems because they had no jobs, no family
and no credible means of identity.
“They are ready tools in the hands of self-serving politicians and
religious bigots who would want to use them to achieve their parochial,
selfish interests.
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