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THE Nigerian Senate has ordered the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, to deport Mr Young Ho Jo, managing director of SAMSUNG, back to South Korea, for allegedly coming into the country without proper documentation.
Senator Solomon Adeola (APC Lagos West) and chairman on Ad- hoc Committee probing the $16.35 billion Egina Oil Field Project, gave the order during an interactive session with major and sub contractors to the project.
Adeola said the resolution for deportation of the SAMSUNG managing director was adopted by the Senate last week Thursday, in line with recommendation to that effect by the ad-hoc committee in its interim report.
Making the announcement to the hearing of the embattled South Korean and other operators of the Egina oil field project, he said that Jo’s stay in Nigeria illegally was discovered when his papers were scrutinised in the cause of the investigation.
He said: “Mr Young Ho Jo, who has been working for the past two months in Nigeria as the managing director of Samsung without fulfilling legal requirements for such because he claimed he could not complete his documentation because the machines of the Nigeria Content Development Monitoring Board, NCMDB, broke down.
“But the NCMBD wrote to us that their machine had never broken down during the period claimed by the Jo showing that the man has contravened the Local Content law.
“Going by recommendations made by this committee to the Senate and resolution adopted, managing director of SAMSUNG is no longer recognised on account of improper documentation as shown by papers he presented.
“To the Senate and this committee, SAMSUNG MD is an illegal immigrant who must be deported by the Nigerian Immigration Service to whom a letter to that effect has been forwarded to the Ministry of Interior.
“He can however come back to the country through proper documentation thereafter,” he said.
The committee chairman revealed further that Jo during his illegal residency in Nigeria as SAMSUNG MD, also violated the Local Content Act by spending $1.6b illion of the $3.5billion contract, SAMSUNG got from $16.35bn Egina Oil Field Project in Goje, South Korea.
Jun. 15, 2018 @ 11:45 GMT |
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