The Federal Government will soon begin the enforcement of available immigration laws that allow only foreigners with the requisite residency and work permits to live and work in the country.

The Minster of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this in Lagos on Thursday in a special event, “BRF GABFEST” organised in his honour.

The Minister said the government is currently undertaking the audit of foreigners working at various work sites and businesses across the country to determine the population of foreigners working in the without a valid work permit.

“Every foreigner who has the work permit to come to Nigeria legally is welcome. But, if you don’t have the relevant papers, we will take you out,” Mr Fashola said.

“It the right of every country to exercise by determining who comes or stays to work in its country. But, we (Nigeria) have not been exercising such rights all these years. We are going to begin to enforce it now.”

He cited the example of the recent deportation of about 723 Nigerians by the Ghanaian government allegedly for “illegal stay, cybercrime, and prostitution between January 2018 and January 2019”.

Among those deported are 81 Nigerians accused of involvement in cybercrime and illegal stay in January.

About 115 of the affected Nigerians have so far been deported based on allegations of overstaying their permit and engaging in prostitution.

Mr Fashola said at every worksite or business location during the audit exercise, officials would identify all workers, particularly from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), who live and work in Nigeria without the legal permits.

The Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Michael Abikoye, has since submitted an official protest of the Nigerian government over what he described as “inhuman treatment of Nigerians by the Ghana Immigration Service”.

Nigeria, Africa’s most densely populated country, with almost 200 million people is also home to many Africans, particularly those in the ECOWAS region, including Ghana.

Nigeria, with a gross domestic product (GDP) of about $400 billion, accounts for almost 60 per cent of the over $720 billion (GDP) of the region, controlling over 56 per cent of trade in the region.

The country contributes more money to the ECOWAS than 13 other members states of the regional body put together in the last 12 years.

As a regional leader, Nigeria is in the vanguard of those promoting regional economic integration, with various strategic initiatives to connect the member countries of ECOWAS.

“It the right of every country to exercise by determining who comes or stays to work in its country. But, we (Nigeria) have not been exercising such rights all these years. We are going to begin to enforce it now.”

He cited the example of the recent deportation of about 723 Nigerians by the Ghanaian government allegedly for “illegal stay, cybercrime, and prostitution between January 2018 and January 2019”.

Blue3k:


Can anyone cite what laws Ghana broke when deporting Nigerians? Even the government hasnt sad what specific ECOWAS or national law they broke.

Blue3k:


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PetroDollax:

Ask them for me oohhh! its normal when Nigeria deport Ghanaians but outrageous when Ghana deports Nigerians! What foolish and nonsense logic is that? Fuckeduppedness

tungamaje:


Have you ever heard of Ghana's Aliens Compliance Order in 1969 when they first deported Nigerians. Please make your research. Ghana started the deportations before Nigeria retaliated. It's just Ghana winning Nigeria by 2 goals to 1

PetroDollax:
You obviously don’t know your history very well Deportation of so-called illegal aliens happened twice in Nigeria. It first happened in 1983 under shagari and again in 1985 under Buhari! So it is Nigeria 2 Ghana 1. Ghana’s tsunami is coming.........

Just30:
you wont find a single Ghanaian in Nigeria
we have a barrage of your people here
If you joke, we will deprive them of the education they so badly need

Okoroawusa:

Who is this?

PetroDollax:

Ask them for me oohhh! its normal when Nigeria deport Ghanaians but outrageous when Ghana deports Nigerians! What foolish and nonsense logic is that? Fuckeduppedness

RTSC:

Don't worry.
We will see who will lose more when Nigeria begins its own policy.
We have not enforced work permits in Nigeria,since forever, which is why it has been overrun by west Africans doing artisan work.

I know two Ghanaians working in my area. I will personally report them to immigration.

Litmus:
Deport them all

Unfortunately, I get the impression Nigeria does not keep such records or bother with immigration as others seem to in Africa. Deport the illegal Africans in Nigeria and watch as India again overtakes Nigeria as poverty capital of the world. Nigeria is simply attracting the dredges from all of West Africa and to some extent Central Africa. We spiral statistically ever poorer as we attract and add their poor to ours and they become statistically wealthier as their wealthier remain in their countries. Looked at like this and our label, Poverty Capital of the world, begins to make sense in another way.

Allen02:
LMAO Ghana have deported 732 Nigerians and that girl faithfull18 have me banned because of That Ghana girl Nanatrendy

faithfull18 how far

BlackAdam55:
That's same faithfull18 write nonsense on my mention because of that Ghana girl

He cited the example of the recent deportation of about 723 Nigerians by the Ghanaian government allegedly for “illegal stay, cybercrime, and prostitution between January 2018 and January 2019”.

Juvinist:
What did they do? So their main offence is that they did not rob nor steal and that constitutes criminality.

Goel:

India too has 60 millions+ illegal immigrants from neighboring countries. India pulled even lot of them out of poverty as its economic boom is happening.
If India pushes them out; extreme poverty will be close to zero; both in numbers & percentage.