Plateau
State government has said that over 240 aliens were recently deported from the
state.
The state
Commissioner for Information and Communication, Pastor Yiljab Abraham, stated
this while addressing journalists in Jos, the Plateau State capital on
Saturday.
According
to him, most of those deported could be a threat to the current relative peace
being enjoyed in the state and have no valid papers.
He
advised the people of the state to be vigilant and report any suspicious
persons to security operatives.
It could
be recalled that the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Special Task Force
(STF) recently conducted a house-to-house search in some selected communities
in Jos North local government area and Bukuru where some aliens were arrested.
Yiljab further
said the incident in Bicishi, Foron District in Barkin-Ladi local government
area last Thursday where five persons were killed and four others were injured
was not an attack or outbreak of violence as erroneously reported, but an armed
robbery incident.
