The Nigeria Immigration Service in Ogun State has announced the interception of no fewer than 33 illegal migrants from two locations in the Odeda Local Government Area of the state.
The state Controller of Immigration, Yakubu Jibrin while parading the suspects at the command’s office along the Presidential Boulverd in the state capital, asserted that the suspects are without valid travel documents and no means of livelihood.
While asking members of the general public to be more vigilant, especially in face of the current security situation in the country, he, however promised that the suspects are to be repatriated back to their countries of origin after due consultations with their countries.
He said, ‘After receiving that information on the 7th of November I decided to send my people there for surveillance which they did for some days to confirm that information and luckily for us on Wednesday, we struck the two locations that was assumed to be occupied by these people and we were able to apprehend 33 of them, we brought them here to this Command and we have started profiling them.
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‘After profiling them, we discovered that out of 33 of the, 32 are Chadian nationals while only one of them is a Togolese.
‘We tried to find out why these people are here and also from the same country and they told us that they were invited to do networking business. We tried to see the type of product this Togolese whom they claimed recruited them for business does and to be frank he cannot show us anything.’
In another report, the Oyo State Police Command has identified as Lateef Wasiu, the man who was caught in possession of a double-faced jackknife on Wednesday at the Labour Party presidential campaign in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The spokesperson for the police command, Adewale Osifeso, said in a statement on Saturday that the suspect, who concealed the weapon inside his suit, was arrested by police operatives at the venue of the rally.
But Osifeso debunked a claim making the round that the suspect made an assassination attempt on the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi.
However, he said Wasiu acted contrary to extant laws, especially the 2022 Electoral Act by bringing a weapon to the rally ground.