In addition, another set of 4,896 were deported from
various countries of the world within the same period,
says NIS public relations officer, Chukwuemeka Obua
yesterday at the media parley of the Forum of
Spokespersons of Security and Response Agencies
(FOSSRA) hosted by I-Nigerian Initiative in Abuja.
He said that many reasons account for why some
Nigerians were refused permission to leave the country
including doubts concerning their motive and
conflicting travelling documents as their destination
countries may decide to refuse them entry.
Obua who spoke about successes and challenges of the
service since the current Comptroller General Mr. David
Paradang was appointed disclosed that to make the
business of border patrolling/policing more effective,
the service has embarked on specialised training of the
Border Patrol Corps and that the first batch of 1000
officers and men have passed out and deployed.
He pointed out that the service had procured and
distributed 59 four wheel jeeps, in addition to All
Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), communication gadgets and
porter cabins to accommodate officers and men at their
patrol bases.
The spokesperson of the Immigration Service also
stated that with the renewed border patrolling
foreigners with both national identity cards and voters'
card have been intercepted while human trafficking
syndicates have been busted along the Nigeria/
Cameroon border with Benue State. Currency
traffickers and smugglers of small arms have also been
intercepted in the course of border patrol operations.
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