No fewer than three million Nigerians are living illegally in the
United Kingdom (UK), the Senate said yesterday through its Committee on
Foreign Affairs.
Committee Chairman Alhaja Monsurat Sunmonu made the statement after a
meeting with officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service at the upper
chamber of the National Assembly.
She said an Assistant Deputy Comptroller–General, Investigations,
Intelligence and Enforcement of the NIS, Mr. T. A Hundeyin, also
confirmed that the 48 Nigerians recently deported from the UK committed
various types of crimes and had served prison terms.
Her words: “The deputy comptroller just confirmed to us 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.”
She said further: ”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.”
“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.”
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