About 7,836 Nigerians were barred from travelling out of the country by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in the first and second quarters of 2014, Chukwuemeka Obua, public relations officer of the service, disclosed on Wednesday.
According to Obua, about 4,896 Nigerians were deported from other countries within the same period.
Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja, he revealed that some of them were barred from leaving the country due to doubts over their aim of travelling as well as conflicting travelling documents.
He further disclosed that the service had embarked on specialised training of the border patrol corps of which the first batch of 1000 officers had passed out and deployed to various borders.
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“The service had procured and distributed 59 four-wheel jeeps, in addition to All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), communication gadgets and porter cabins to accommodate officers and men at their patrol bases,” he said.
“With the renewed border patrolling, foreigners with both national identity cards and voters’ card have been intercepted while human trafficking syndicates have been busted along the Nigeria/Cameroon border with Benue State. Currency traffickers and smugglers of small arms have also been intercepted in the course of border patrol operations.”
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