The
Comptroller of the Kaduna State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service
(NIS), Alhaji Hamman Yerima, Monday paraded 103 illegal aliens, who entered the
country illegally from Niger Republic.
Yerima
explained that many of the illegal aliens were picked up at some of the
Government Reserved Areas (GRA) within Kaduna metropolis, where they were
employed as security guards.
He
said they would be deported immediately to their home country and urged
Nigerians to engage only legally permitted aliens for security jobs.
Yerima
blamed the influx of illegal aliens into the country on the nation’s porous
borders, urging that the borders should be fully equipped to checkmate the
movement of illegal immigrants.
According
to him, “the command of the NIS conducted mop up operations against illegal
immigrants in the state. This time around, we conducted an operation in Kachia
local government area on May 26, and we arrested 25 illegal immigrants.
“The
next day, we also conducted an operation in the high brow areas of Kaduna North
that is, Ungwan Rimi GRA, Malali GRA, Ungwan Dosa and Marafa where we arrested
59 suspects. Then at the toll gate, along Zaria road, we also arrested 17
suspects, and earlier on we arrested two suspects, so all in all we have 103
suspects.
“All
the suspects are going to be repatriated this evening (yesterday) by the
special grace of God. They are all Nigeriens. They are into menial jobs. They
can be lured with small amount of money to do anything. We are sending them
back by road.”
“Our
borders are still in porous condition, and nothing seems to have been done
about them. I think these borders need
more equipment, more logistics in terms of vehicles, in terms of communication
equipments, and even the moribund border patrol aircrafts should be revived.
“Most
of these aliens are being engaged as security men and dry cleaners by highly
placed Nigerians, they don’t bother to come to the immigration to register
them.
“We
never say that they should not come to Nigeria, they should come, but there are
guidelines, there are conditions, they should come with a travelling documents,
national passports, or ECOWAS travelling
certificate, then pass through an established immigration control force, let
them stamp this passport, they have seen you coming in, then the arrest is ok,
just report to our office and we do ECOWAS resident permit, and they can be
employed for God knows how many years, I have no problem with that.”
Source: Thisday
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