NIS ready for Refugee Returnees from Cameroun

Fri, Oct 20, 2017 | By publisher


Africa

 

THE Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, is ready to accommodate returnees from Cameroun as a result of the crisis in the country. Muhammad Babandede, comptroller general, NIS, said the service was ready to carry out its duties should there be influx of refugees from Cameroun.

Babandede said the service was equally ready to receive the Nigerian citizens who might return home temporarily due to the crisis situation. According to a press statement signed by Sunday James, public relation officer of the service, the NIS boss stated the preparedness of the service when he was in Cross River State on a two-day working visit.

The comptroller general also used the opportunity to meet with the NIS comptrollers of Cross River, Benue, Akwa-Ibom and Taraba States, the states bordering Cameroun from the south. He charged the officers to keep observing human rights and best practices in engaging the refugees and Nigerian returnees.

Babandede also advised them to keep vigil of any sensitive information, escalations and eventualities that could result from the ongoing situation in Cameroun. “Some Nigerian returnees from Cameroon met the comptroller general at Mfum Control post to relate their experiences and request to be allowed to return with their trucks that are parked in Cameroun side due to the issue of temporary border closure of Nigeria and Cameroun border around the southern part of Cameroun,” the statement said.

The comptroller-general also used the occasion of his visit to commission housing projects at Mfum and Agbokim for the accommodation of officers and a borehole. He assured them of his administration’s effort to always visit them wherever they are and to provide required welfare and logistic needs to make them work harder and remain corrupt free.

 

– Oct 20, 2017 @ 17:25 GMT |

 

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