From Femi Oyelola
Kaduna State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) yesterday paraded 103 illegal aliens, from Niger Republic.
According to the the State Comptroller of NIS, Hamman Yerima, "the Kaduna state Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service as usual conducted mop up operations against illegal immigrants in the state and this time around, we conducted an operation in Kachia local government area on May 26, 2013, and we arrested 25 illegal immigrants.
He said that illegal aliens would be deported immediately to Niger Republic.
He said that majority of the aliens were picked up in Government Reservation Areas (GRA) of Kaduna metropolis, nd urged Nigerians to engage only legally permitted aliens.
He blamed the influx of llegal aliens into the country on nation's porous borders, saying that that the borders should be fully equipped.
"The next day, we also conducted an operation in 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, we arrested 17 suspects and earlier on, we arrested two suspects, so all in all we have 103 suspects. And all These 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.
"There is a particular case in Kaduna North where some Nigerians tried to prevent us from arresting the illegal aliens, so we had to arrest one of the Nigerians and brought him to
our station, my men started giving him corporal punishment, but I had to stop hem, and allowed him to go.
"Our borders are still in porous condition, and nothing seems to be done about them. I think these borders need more equipments, more logistics in terms of vehicles, in terms of communication equipments, and even the moribund border patrol aircrafts should be revived.
"Honestly, the type of aircraft we are using, the N 288 is not the type that we should even use for border patrol, they are well equipped but they cannot land immediate at a required location, but helicopter can do it without looking back.
"Nigerians should help us to discourage these illegal aliens from entering the country because 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 traveling 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.
"We arrested two of them but their relations brought their ECOWAS travelling certificate
photocopies, and we just released them, and we apologized to them and they ccepted it.
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