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The Nigeria Immigration Service Comptroller-General, Mr. Martins Kure-Abeshi, has announced to the newsmen that 6 British citizens have been deported for flouting Nigeria’s immigration laws.
Abeshi revealed this in a meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on Interior.
He further warned that anyone living in Nigeria and cannot keep to the immigration laws will be convicted and deported irrespective of their country of origin.
He said “I just arrived from abroad on Monday and met this case.
“As I am talking, on Monday in the evening, the company that employed those expatriates, after my discussion with them, they are to be responsible for their air tickets.
“As I am talking now, I am sure they have been flown out.”
“When we conduct our operation and discover that someone who is not a Nigerian is living in this country illegally, he will be repatriated. That is on our own part, they have to go.”
“There is another angle to it. If he is a worker, working in a company and we discover that he does not have papers to stay in this country, he has committed an offence against the state, the company that the expatriate is working will give us money, buy a ticket, or whatever is their responsibility,” he said.
“Before anybody takes an appointment here as an expatriate, the organisation will write to immigration that they are taking immigration responsibility for that expatriate.
“If that expatriate commits any offence against the company and they want to remove him, that company must provide ticket so that the person is removed from this country,” the NIS boss said.
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