Immigration
Omu-Aran (Kwara), June 23, 2018 (NAN) A community leader in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara, Chief Jide Adebayo, has urged the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to open more registration centres for aliens.
Adebayo, who was recently installed as the new Eesa of Omu-Aran Traditional Council of Chiefs, made the call when a team from NIS paid a courtesy visit to the Olomu’s palace in Omu-Aran.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the team led Mrs Grace Adeoye, an Assistant Comptroller of Immigration in Kwara, was at the palace to deliver a message from the management of NIS.
Adebayo, a former NAN Executive Director of Marketing, said opening more centres would enable the country to have a fair idea of the population and statistics of aliens, especially at the grassroots.
He also stressed the need for the NIS management to step up its internal security machinery through proper surveillance of the nation’s border posts.
Adebayo said that the porous nature of borders across the country was responsible for the influx of many illegal aliens.
According to him, in this era of global terrorism, every nation has a duty to control infiltration of into its territory by illegal immigrants who are becoming security threat.
The community leader said issues bordering on internal security should be a collective responsibility of the police as well as other security agencies and locals.
“They are supposed to complement each other in their surveillance, plans and programmes.
“Internal security will remain a huge challenge at the grassroots without adequate inputs of other relevant agencies and locals in security operations, ” he said.
Adebayo also urged the NIS to respect the Federal Government’s federal character policy by employing people from the locality where it operates.
He assured NIS of the continued support of Omu-Aran community in the bid to boost security in the area.
“It was in the spirit of such support that the Omu-Aran community built three additional police posts, donated two security vans and recently furnished the NIS office,” he said.
Adeoye, in her remarks, said the visit was meant to express NIS management’s appreciation of the recent renovation and furnishing of its office in the area.
She promised that the community would continue to fill the impact of NIS in the area of immigrants registration and control as well as other services. (NAN)
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(Edited by Mufutau Ojo)