The Senate on Thursday said no fewer than three million Nigerians are currently living illegally in the United Kingdom and that its investigation had shown that the British government had no plan to deport 29, 000 Nigerians by the British government as reported recently.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu, stated this after a meeting with officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service at the National Assembly.
She explained that the Asst. Deputy Comptroller – General, Investigations, Intelligence and Enforcement, of the NIS, Mr. T. A Hundeyin, also confirmed that the 48 Nigerians recently deported from the United Kingdom committed various types of crimes and had served prison terms.
Sunmonu said, “The Asst. Deputy Comptroller just confirmed to us now that it is not true that 29, 000 Nigerians are being deported from the United Kingdom or that the UK government intends to deport 29, 000 Nigerians.
“He (however) said that only 48 Nigerians were deported and he had shown us their names and records that actually confirmed that they had all served their prison sentences so that is why they are being deported”
The senator added that that, “about three million Nigerians are illegally living in the United Kingdom and that if three million Nigerians are living there illegally, and they are only removing just 48 people confirmed to have committed crime and jailed, then the situation is not too bad.”
She said, “We will not relent in our efforts on checking and doing our oversight functions. If it requires for us to go there and visit them, and to ask questions, we won’t mind to go there and to give Nigerians and to give them the history and the records of what we find out” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Foolish idiots making life unbearable for Nigeria n's that's why they are running away from Nigeria 24hours. United Kingdom should absorb Nigeria n's because they are the cause if Nigeria n's problems till today.greedy British exploiters
ReplyDeleteThe told number of illegal immigrants in the UK is not up to 1 million. And that includes your former colleagues that ran away when APC won the election.
ReplyDeleteYeah citizens of UAE will never accept free British Citizenship because they are better off in UAE. Alas Nigerians are ready and willing to serve as slaves in any part of the world due to bad governance. There is God oh!
ReplyDeleteDon't blame them. Nigeria na iron oh. Our leaders are the cause
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