The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) disclosed it has arrested 516 illegal immigrants in possession of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) in Zaria LGA of Kaduna State. This disclosure was made on Friday by the NIS Comptroller, Kaduna State, Liman Kila, stating that the non-Nigerians were from Cameroon, Chad, Niger Republic, Senegal and Togo.
He said, “If you are not a Nigerian and you are in possession of a Permanent Voters Card (PVC), you’ve committed an offence, you have to be arrested and be eased out.
“We have done that in the past and those of them that are practically here, they are being profiled and when they are profiled, we are going to find out whether some of them are still in possession of PVCs because they are from different zone.
“The last zone was Kaduna zone, we retrieved more than 1000 PVCs. Now as they are being profiled, officers are still checking to find out if they are in possession of this card.
“Not only PVCs, but some of them are also even in possession of Local Government Indigene Forms, which we are going to retrieve.”
He also said that more operations would be carried out by the Service to ensure that non-Nigerians do not participate in the upcoming general elections.
