516 illegal immigrants arrested with PVCs in Kaduna State

Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has arrested 516 illegal immigrants in Kaduna State with some of them having permanent voter cards and national identity cards.

According to the state comptroller, Liman Sani Kila, the illegal immigrants were from Niger Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Togo and Senegal. Liman, while parading the illegal immigrants at the command’s headquarters said those arrested were undergoing profiling and would be deported.

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He explained that in the last year’s mop up operations, the command retrieved 1,000 PVCs from illegal immigrants arrested within Kaduna Zone.