The Federal Government has deported some over 22,000 illegal immigrants over the past couple of months as part of a crackdown linked to its fight against an Islamist insurgency, the government said.
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Interior minister Abba Moro told reporters in the northern city of Kano late Thursday most of the deportees came from the neighbouring nations of Chad, Cameroon and Niger and were not properly documented.
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He said Nigeria was engaging in the crackdown because illegal immigrants "have become ready tools in the hands of insurgents".
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"So far as at today, over 22,000 of such I llegal immigrants have been eased out of the country," he said in response to a question on activity in recent months with a state of emergency in place in the country's northeast.
The Federal Government have really done well so far for the development of this country. Deportation in this country is something normal though...
I don't just like it when people are deported no matter what the reason is....I'm always shocked @ such news.