The Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazau (retd), on Tuesday said the Federal Government would monitor all immigrants to enhance national security.
Dambazau said this while addressing State House Correspondents on the new immigration policy which the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) was due to implement.
“It is possible to monitor all immigrants from the entry point up to where he is going to stay,’’ he said, while reacting to the obvious challenges inherent in the implementation.
The minister said there are immigration personnel up to the ward level, adding that the NIS would partner the local communities, community and religious leaders therein to achieve the objective.
He noted that anyone coming into the country should be known as long as the visitor would spend more than 90 days.
He said the immigrant had to be registered because it was important for the efficiency of the NIS and internal security.
“Quite a lot of foreign visitors come into the country without registration and nobody knows who they are, where they come from and that itself is a security risk,’’ he said.
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