NIS Arrests Illegal Migrants

By Oluremi Olugbenro

Sixty-one people suspected to be irregular migrants from Cameroon have been arrested in Ogun State by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS.

The State Comptroller of Immigration, Mrs Olufunmilayo Bosede who announced the arrests to journalists in Abeokuta, said the 43 male and 18 female Cameroonians were discovered to have been smuggled into Nigeria by a private company, using them for health products’ networking business. 

Mrs Bosede stated that the Cameroonians who came into the Country through illegal routes and without valid travel documents were arrested at Ibafo area of the state alongside another set of fifty-two Nigerians.

The State Comptroller of Immigration explained that both the illegal migrants and their Nigerian counterparts had confessed that their recruiters made them to cough out large sum of money, ranging from 500 thousand to 650 thousand naira each, before they were registered as downlines in the networking business.

She maintained that, the two major recruiters, one Nigerian and another Cameroonian, who were on the run, had through the company, identified as QNet, lured their victims with promises of juicy jobs in Nigerian oil companies, banks and other blue chip companies. 

Stressing the need for caution as the fraudulent job recruitment approach was becoming prevalent, the Comptroller of Immigration pointed out that the arrested Nigerians, thirty-one males and twenty-one females were also recruited from different parts of the country under the same circumstances.