FG closes land and sea borders for polls

THE Federal Government on
Wednesday directed that all land
and sea borders with neighbouring
countries be closed from midnight
of Thursday (today) to the midnight
of Saturday to allow for a hitch-free
poll.
The Comptroller-General of the
Nigeria Immigration Service, David
Parradang, who announced this in a
statement in Abuja, said
immigration personnel had been
deployed in land borders to ensure
that no illegal migrants entered
the country during the election.
The statement by the NIS Public
Relations Officer, Emeka Obua,
quoted the CG as saying this during
a meeting with some embassy
officials and leaders of the
Economic Community of West
African States from Niger Republic,
Senegal, Chad, Cameroun Republic,
Guinea and Mali.
Parradang cautioned foreigners
resident in Nigeria against coming
to vote during the elections,
adding that any non-Nigerian
caught voting would be prosecuted
for violating the electoral laws and
be jailed.
He advised embassy officials and
community leaders to ask their
nationals to keep off polling
centres, noting that the warning
had become necessary to ensure
that the existing robust
relationship among member-states
in the sub-region was not
undermined by unnecessary
meddlesomeness in the internal
electoral affairs of other states.
The statement read, “The CG
announced that effective from
midnight March 26 to midnight
March 28, 2015, all land and sea
borders across the country would
be closed to allow for a hitch-free
election slated for March 28, 2015.
“He also enjoined the community
leaders to advise any of their
nationals who is in possession of
Nigeria’s Permanent Voter Card,
National Identity Card or Passport
to surrender same immediately as
anyone caught with any of them
shall be brought before the law.”
The CG further stated that the NIS
would soon embark on biometric
registration of all the ECOWAS and
other African citizens resident in
the country to build a reliable
database of all non-Nigerians
resident in the country.
According to him, a total of 2,066
irregular migrants, who were
rounded up across the country, had
been deported.
Meanwhile, the CG has approved
the deployment of five Deputy
Comptrollers-General and
Command-Comptrollers to different
parts of the country to monitor the
polls.

Nice

Yeah

Election fever everywhere

B4 nko

E no rich like dis

Rest furani will escape border to vote for aboki furani buhari

Aboki, yowa

SmartMobility wrote:

Rest furani will escape border to vote for aboki furani buhari

Nah u sabi

SmartMobility wrote:

Rest furani will escape border to vote for aboki furani buhari

u always hit the point bro!

stainlez wrote:

Election fever everywhere

fever kwa?

it deserved to be close

Yeah

Election saga