No fewer than 18 Cameroonian irregular immigrants residing in Makurdi, the Benue state capital have been repatriated by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Benue Command.
The State Comptroller, Mr. Jerry Omezi, disclosed this while addressing journalists in Makurdi on Monday, saying the Command got an intelligence report that a residence in Makurdi, at No. 22, Jonah Jang Crescent, Nyiman, was housing irregular immigrants.
“The place was identified, our officers were detailed to carry out surveillance there, and they identified 18 Cameroonians with no travel documents.
“On questioning them, it was discovered that they operate a foreign-based online marketing company known as Qnet.
“Further investigation revealed that the business was in health care products, jewelry, and cosmetics.
“The Head of the online marketing business, Anyi Emmanuel Aberafo, who also had no travel documents, said they invested about 600.000 CFA, an equivalent of N900,000, in the business,” Omezi said.
The Comptroller said the repatriated persons were economic immigrants who had no valid travel documents to stay in Nigeria. They advised them to go back and follow the due process of migration, assuring them of a decent manner of taking them back to their country.
Omezi, however, said that a lady among the group had applied for refugee status because of the crisis in Cameroon which the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is processing.
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