The Comptroller-General of Immigration Service, David Parradang, who
announced this in Abuja on Wednesday, said immigration personnel had
been deployed in land borders to ensure that no illegal migrants come
into the country during the elections.
A statement by the NIS Public Relations Officer, Emeka Obua, said the CG
stated this during a meeting with some embassy officials and leaders of
ECOWAS communities from Niger Republic, Senegal, Chad, Cameroun, Guinea
and Mali.
Parradang cautioned foreigners resident in Nigeria against coming to
vote during the elections, adding that any Non-Nigerian caught voting
would be prosecuted for violating the electoral laws and jailed.
He advised the embassy officials and community leaders to ask their
nationals to keep off polling centres, noting that the warning had
become necessary to ensure that the existing robust relationship among
member-states in the sub-region is not undermined by unnecessary
meddlesomeness in the internal electoral affairs of other states.
The statement reads, “The CG announced that effective midnight March
26 to midnight March 28, 2015, all land and sea borders across the
country would be closed to allow for a hitch-free elections slated for
March 28, 2015.
“He also enjoined the community leaders to advise any of their
nationals in possession of Nigeria’s Permanent Voter Cards, National
Identity Card or Passport to surrender same immediately as anyone caught
with any of them shall be brought before the law.”
The CG further stated that the Nigeria Immigration Service would soon
embark on biometric registration of all ECOWAS and other African
citizens resident in the country to build a reliable database of all
non-Nigerians resident in the country.
According to him, a total of 2,066 irregular migrants who were rounded up across the country have been deported.
Meanwhile, the CG has approved the deployment of five Deputy
Comptrollers-General and Command-Comptrollers to different parts of the
country to monitor the polls.
Thursday 26 March 2015
Election 2015: Land and sea borders to be shut Thursday to Saturday
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