IMMIGRATION REPLIES POLICE AND MILITARY – REVEALS DETAIL ON FULANI MASSACRE AND MOVEMENT
The Public Relations Officer of NIS, Ekpedeme King, while disclosing
this, explained that foreigners coming into the country are never
profiled on the basis of their ethnicity.
According to him, “There is no evidence that the herdsmen are foreigners
and the immigration service doesn’t profile immigrants based on their
ethnicity. So, the NIS cannot say whether the herdsmen are
Nigerians or
not because nobody has produced them for us to profile them.
“We are at the borders and we have not seen any herdsman coming into the
country. We have our men at the borders and they are doing their job.
So far, what we have heard is speculation that they are from foreign
countries, but no one has profiled them to know their identities, but it
is not impossible that they could be foreigners.
“We don’t ask if Fulani’s are herdsmen or not and we don’t see people
coming in with cattle. We have not received reports of people coming in
with cattle. When you see someone coming in with animals, we have
relevant agencies to check the state of the animals.
If you are importing or exporting animals, like in other countries, the port health officials are in charge of that.”
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