Nigeria Immigration Service repatriates 712 aliens in Delta State

By Edo Dogwu
December 24, 2015 07:08:25am GMT | Views: 66

WorldStage Newsonline-- Nigeria Immigration Service, Delta State Command has arrested and repatriated 712 illegal immigrants in the state to their respective countries.

Mr Madu Musa, the command’s Comptroller said, “in our effort to control the influx of irregular immigrants in Delta State, we have embarked on this mop-up exercise across the length and breadth of the State to remove undocumented immigrants, this is a routine operation.”

He said that of the large number of persons arrested mainly from West Africa only 712 were confirmed to be illegally residing in the country.

“As expected in an exercise of this nature, thousands of persons were apprehended, but after thorough screening, Nigerians and other legally resident foreigners were released, while seven hundred and twelve persons, (so far) have been confirmed as irregular immigrants (mainly of West African extraction) have been repatriated.”

Madu said the exercise was on-going and commended the Delta State Government for its support to the command.

Musa said; “we shall continue so far as there are logistics support. The government of Delta State has greatly assisted the Command with logistics support for this operation.”

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