The Comptroller General of NIS, Martin Abeshi has told New Telegraph that special operations of identifying illegal migrants have been conducted in Kano, Rivers and Lagos states.
The NIS boss acknowledged that though there has been a continuous influx of illegal migrants into Nigeria, he and his team has been working hard to ensure that the illegal migrants do not constitute a nuisance or make the security situation in the country worse.
He said: ”l expect that every week, you should be hearing that some numbers of aliens have been deported out of this country. It happened in Port Harcourt, it is happening in Lagos, it is happening in Kano and it is happening all over the country.
”We are up to this task. Our boys and our officers in various parts of this country are performing very well and I am very sure that we are on top of this matter.
”Our officers are doing well to checkmate any foreigner that is here in this country and is trying to disrupt the peace that we are enjoying today.” Last week, about 500 illegal aliens were arrested and paraded before newsmen in Niger state.
It was established that 300 of them entered the country illegally from Niger Republic. Similarly, the Gombe state command of the NIS has repatriated 112 illegal aliens to their countries of origin in the last eight months.
The NIS boss in the state, Yunusa Aliyu, said that the exercise followed a ministerial directive, even as he said a another round of the operation to identify illegal aliens will soon commence.
Nigeria has one of the most porous borders in Africa, with about 1,497 illegal unmanned entry points, thousands of illegal migrants usually find their ways into the country with ease.
Violent clashes between armed herdsmen and farmers in several states is believed to be as a result of the influx of some illegal migrant herdsmen from countries such as Niger, Chad, Mali and Senegal.
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