NIS Deports 98 Illegal Immigrants From Rivers

Nigeria Immigration
Service (NIS) says it has repatriated 98 illegal immigrants to their various countries in the West African Sub-region.
An immigration officer, who spoke under the cover of anonymity in Port Harcourt recently, noted that the immigrants who were repatriated  did not have valid  documents entitling them to live in Nigeria.
The immigration officer noted that many of the illegal immigrants were mendicants and constituted nuisance on the streets of  Port Harcourt.
He said most of them were Nigerians who had entered the country without  immigration documents.
The NIS officer expressed regrets that people from neighbouring West African countries were continually entering  Nigeria without the required document.
He said some of them were used to cause mayhem by mischief makers and explained  that most of them, especially the mendicants defaced the streets of Port Harcourt.
He said that the organisation will continue to carry out the exercise in order to ensure  that illegal immigrants were repatriated from Nigeria’s and pointed out that only those legally in Nigeria would be allowed to stay.
On the continuity of the exercise, the NIS officer said the exercise would continue next month.
He described Nigeria as a  place where all manners of people were allowed to stay even without valid immigration documents.
He said that despite the number of people repatriated, many more persons were still living in Rivers State illegally and expressed the determination of the organisation to remove all illegal immigrants from the city of Port Harcourt.