NIS Set to Clamp Down on Illegal Immigrants in Niger

 NIS Set to Clamp Down on Illegal Immigrants in Niger

                                 

Following an upsurge in the number of foreign nationals illegally residing in Niger State, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) would begin to clamp down on all such foreigners in different parts of the state.

Recently, foreign nationals especially, Nigeriens and Indians have flooded Minna, the state capital.

The Nigeriens, some of them with their wives and children, beg for alms at times embarrassingly as the children cling to passersby.

 Some of the Nigeriens also engage in sale of water. They are popularly called ‘mairuwa’. 

Disturbed by this development, the Comptroller of the Nigeria Immigration Service of the state Command, Mr. David Adi, said the Command would soon embark on ‘a mop-up exercise’ of these illegal immigrants.

 Adi said their influx pose a serious security risk to the state especially with the activities of insurgents in parts of the country which has necessitated the need for all security operatives in the country to be more alive to their responsibilities. 

"We need to mop up and remove illegal immigrants from time to time in order for them not to become security threats to the state. There are many of them who do not have travel documents in the state as of today. Those without business have no business to be here," he said.

The Comptroller, who refused to disclose when the exercise would commence, said it would be a statewide operation so that none of the illegal immigrant would have room for escape.

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