Egbetokun: Their Accounts Have Been Blocked
THE Comptroller General of Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs. Kemi Nandap, said sponsors of the #EndBadGovernance protests in the Diaspora were on watch-list and would be arrested when entering the country.
Nandap, who disclosed this on Tuesday, August 6, in Abuja, during a combined news conference by the heads of security agencies and Service Chiefs, convened by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, at the Defence Headquarters, noting: “We have identified some Diaspora sponsors, they are on our watch-list.
“Any attempt they make to come into the country, we will be notified and they will be picked up and handed to appropriate authority.”
The Immigration boss said the Service had, in response to the protests, deployed more officers to the country’s land borders and airports to ensure effective manning of the entry points, adding that NIS had also stepped up surveillance to prevent foreign intervention in the country.
On his part, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. Kayode Egbetokun, said the Police had uncovered some sponsors, but declined giving further information on them.
Egbetokun explained that some accounts of such individuals had been blocked, adding that “many of them reside abroad.”
Also, Director General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Mr. Yusuf Bichi, represented by the Service’s spokesman, Dr. Peter Afunanya, said that the Service was monitoring those concerned and also working with the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) to identify more persons behind the funding of the protest.
Musa led the service chiefs and heads of all the security, intelligence and paramilitary agencies to brief newsmen on the protest, a day after President Bola Tinubu met with them following the violence that broke out during the protests across the country.
