BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON
Operatives of Edo State Police command have arrested 26 irregular migrants from Cameroon and Bokina Faso.
The migrants are 16 males and eight females totalling 24 Cameroonians while a male and one female said they were from Bokina Faso.
The Public Relations Officer, Edo State Police command SP Chidi Nwabuzor said the hotel raid followed credible intelligence received by the DPO of Jattu divisional police headquarters.
SP Nwabuzor disclosed the migrants were arrested at Afua village in Uzaure, Etsako West local government area of Edo State.
“Upon interrogation it was discovered that they could not effectively express themselves in English language, the little they could was to identify their own country and that is how we were able to know the numbers from each country.
“They confessed that a certain young man brought them to Nigeria through Cameroon bounder”, SP Nwabuzor said.
He further explained that the 26 irregular migrants would be properly investigated, profiled and handed over to Nigeria Immigration Service.
However, a man who identified himself simply as Escavator operator said he brought them into Nigeria to join in the escavation contract he got as he is a Nigerian who had lived and worked in Cameroon.
