For 21-year-old Musa Isa, who is from the Niger Republic, his major mission to Kwara State, Nigeria was to work and get money to feed himself and later marry a young Nigerian girl. Isa was one of the 120 illegal immigrants arrested and paraded by Nigeria Immigration on Thursday for not having valid documents.
“The immigration men caught me and brought me here. They caught me because I am from Niger. I do not have my travel documents. I have been here for about 10 years. I have all my people with me.
“I offload cement bags as a labourer. I stay at Lajorin, Muritala. I want to come back to Nigeria. I will prepare my paper. I love Kwara State because I see food to eat, but in my place we do not have much food to eat. I am also looking for money to marry.”
Another illegal Immigrant, Mumuni Hassan, said he was from the Niger Republic but came to Offa, Kwara State, about two weeks ago to work as a cobbler. He also said that he found Offa more lucrative for his work than his country.
Hassan said, “I came here about two weeks ago. I will come back to Nigeria. I will prepare my documents.”
The Kwara command Public Relations Officer of NIS, Adesola Adeyemi, said the 120 illegal immigrants were arrested during the command’s periodic mop-up exercise.
He stated that 97 of the immigrants were from the Niger Republic while 23 were from the Republic of Benin. He said officials of the command also intercepted a truck that was loaded with 46 passengers in Ilorin on the suspicion that the passengers were from the Niger Republic.
According to him, after investigation, it was confirmed that the travellers were from the Niger Republic.
“We could not find anything on them that showed that they came for election, but we should move to make sure that we nip any security threat in the bud,” he stressed.
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