Some of the illegal migrants...Photo Credit: NIS
The Nigeria Immigration Service, Osun State Command, on Friday paraded 55 irregular migrants arrested at different locations in the state.
The service said the migrants were nationals of Cameroon and Congo and had entered the state without any documents.
Addressing journalists shortly after parading the migrants, the Osun Comptroller of Immigration, Ibrahim Akinyemi, said the arrests followed intelligence available to the command.
Akinyemi said, “These people are about 55. They are irregular migrants. They were arrested and brought here for repatriation. They came in through an unauthorised route. So, their stay here has become a serious nuisance. Through intelligence gathering, we were able to locate their residence, and we have to bring them here with the directive from the service headquarters through the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service. So this is just the beginning of the exercise.
