NIS Arrests 516 Illegal Immigrants With PVCs, NIMC In Kaduna

• Over 500 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Kaduna.

• The NIS revealed that the immigrants owned PVCs and NIMC cards.

• The state controller revealed that those arrested were undergoing profiling and would be deported.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has arrested 516 illegal immigrants in Kaduna State.

This publication learnt that the immigrants were caught having permanent voter cards and national identity cards.

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The state comptroller, Liman Sani Kila, while parading the illegal immigrants at the command’s headquarters on Thursday, said they were from Niger Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Togo, and Senegal.

Liman further stated that those arrested were undergoing profiling and would be deported.

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He explained that in the last year’s mop-up operations, the command retrieved 1,000 PVCs from illegal immigrants arrested within Kaduna Zone.

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