Immigration Service Bars 7,836 Nigerians From Travelling Abroad

A total of 7,836 Nigerians were prevented from travelling out of the country by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) within the first six months of 2014.
In addition, another set of 4,896 were deported from various countries of the world within the same period, says NIS Service Public Relations Officer, Chukwuemeka Obua today at the Media Parley of the Forum of Spokespersons of Security and Response Agencies (FOSSRA) hosted I-Nigerian Initiativein Abuja.
He said 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 specialized training of the Border Patrol Corps and indeed 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.
He said “Deployment of additional 24 Immigration attaches to 12 new missions in furtherance of Government’s Citizens Diplomacy policy thrust. The commencement of the Electronic Passenger Automated Registration System (e-PARS).
He added that through robust internal monitoring and control, continuous mob-up of irregular immigrants had been intensified where thousands of irregular immigrants have been repatriated.

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