NIS arrests 147 illegal immigrants in Ondo

Officers of the Ondo State Command
of the Nigeria Immigration Service on
Friday paraded 147 persons from
Niger Republic and Chad, who
illegally came to the state without
valid travelling documents.
The Comptroller of NIS in the state,
Mr. Adesola Sessi, told journalists in
Akure that the illegal immigrants
were picked up by his men at the
Sabo and Shasha areas of the state
capital.
He explained that the people will be
repatriated to their countries of
origin immediately because they
were constituting a great security
risk, especially when it was
discovered that they had no means of
livelihood.
He said two of them attacked and
injured some immigration officers
while trying to resist arrest on
Thursday.
Sessi said the illegal immigrants had
been living in the state for a very long
time and that it took his men diligent
surveillance to fish them out of their
hideouts.
Source: punch