Hausa Community, Imo Partner To Stop Infiltrators

Members of the Hausa
Community in Imo State have teamed up with the state government to fight infiltrators and suspected terrorists.
The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Rochas Okorocha on Northern Affairs, Mr Faisal Lawal, who gave the assurance in an interview with newsmen in Owerri, Wednesday, said that the government had an understanding with the community for  northern Nigerians residing in Imo to register for easy identification.
He said that genuine northern Nigerians in the state were expected to fill a form to that effect adding that the community had indicated interest to join the government in the fight against infiltrators.
Lawal said that the government observed that some people who claimed to be northern Nigerians were not genuine.
He said that plans were being made to conduct a proper search on vehicles conveying such people into the state.
According to him, some of the infiltrators are being brought from outside Nigeria, noting that infiltrators could pose a security threat, and would no longer be tolerated in Imo.
“Since the identity of such people are not known, it can be dangerous to allow them to mix up with genuine northerners.”
“The genuine northerners will join government to flush out all the bad eggs who claim to be Hausa indigenes,” he said.
He said that the government had no plans to relocate northerners living in Amawusa on Douglass Road, Owerri, noting that the government only relocated street traders to the Relief Market, where they were given shops.