The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has arrested two Indians for allegedly entering the country without proper documentation in spite of the closure of borders over the coronavirus pandemic.
The Lagos Airport Command, NIS, Comptroller, Abdullahi Usman, made this known in a statement by the Public Relations Officer, James Sunday, on Sunday.
Mr Usman noted that the Indians were both males and were intercepted during the screening of 446 Indian nationals that were being evacuated from Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Saturday.
The statement read: “While profiling the men, it was discovered that they entered Nigeria through the land border and had visa on arrival application approval which they failed to present to the immigration officials at the border.
“The men had been in Cotonou, Benin Republic for a month and had the stamp of that country dated Feb. 9, 2020 when they left and entered Nigeria illegally.
“They did not present themselves for immigration checks at the border, and the two are 32 and 29 years old will be prosecuted according to the Nigeria immigration laws as a deterrence to others.”
According to the statement, the NIS Comptroller General, Muhammad Babandede, had warned migrants to desist from breaking immigration laws of countries of transit or destination.
