Edo State Police Command has handed over 26 illegal foreigners who were arrested in Ayua near Auchi, in the Etsako West Local Government Area of the state, last week to the Nigeria Immigration Service for interrogation.
The spokesman for the command, Chidi Nwabuzor, who disclosed this on Friday in Benin, said that the foreigners were moved to the custody of the Edo State Command of NIS, Benin, on Monday, November 13, 2023.
Nwabuzor said that when the foreigners were quizzed, it was discovered that they could not effectively communicate in the English language except to identify their countries of origin.
“They confessed that a certain young man brought them to Nigeria through the Cameroon border.”
The 26 migrants comprised 16 males and eight females from Cameroon, while the remaining two, a male and a female, are from Burkina Faso.
They were reportedly arrested in Ayua-Uzaire on November 9, 2023.
The Nigerian, who claimed to have lived and worked in Cameroon for years, simply identified himself as an excavator operator and confessed to having brought the foreigners to the country to join in excavation work at the small Edo town.
The spokesman of NIS, Edo Command, Mr. Ki Ake, was yet to comment on the issue as of the time of filing this report.
At the NIS Edo headquarters in Benin, the Saturday Tribune found out that the 26 migrants have been kept in a special facility of the service pending thorough investigations.
A source at NIS disclosed that the Comptroller of Immigration in Edo had directed that the illegal migrants be screened, profiled, and documented.
He said their arrest followed credible intelligence received by the DPO of Jattu Divisional Police Headquarters.
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