Senate says Nigeria should deport ‘illegal immigrant’ Samsung MD

The senate has ordered that the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), deport Young Ho Jo, managing director (MD) of Samsung Nigeria Limited, for allegedly coming into the country without proper documentation.

Solomon Adeola, chairman of the ad hoc committee investigating the company’s role in the $16.3 billion Egina oil field project, gave the directive on Thursday.

Adeola said the Nigeria Content Development Monitoring Board (NCMDB) reported the Samsung MD to the ministry of interior.

The senator said Ho Jo violated the local content act by spending $1.6 billion out of the $3.5 billion contract Samsung got from the $16.3 billion Egina project in Goeje, South Korea.

“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, told us that he couldn’t complete his documentation as a result of alleged breakdown of machines of the Nigeria Content Development Monitoring Board (NCMDB),” Adeola said.

“But the NCMBD wrote to us that their machine had never broken down in the period claimed, showing that the man has contravened the Local Content law.

“Going by recommendations made by this committee to the senate and resolution adopted, MD 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 which 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.”