The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons NAPTIP says it will embark on massive campaign on the need for young Nigerians to travel abroad legally.
NAPTIP’s Southwest Zonal Head, Godwin Morka, said on Thursday that the campaign was to check rampant deportation over forged documents.
Morka said about 1,500 Nigerians engaged in foreign trips annually through falsification of travel documents.
According to him, young Nigerians have devised unscrupulous ways of falsifying visas and other documents to enable them travel abroad.
The issue of illegal immigration is today linked to human trafficking, such that in general terms, we can say that trafficking is an irregular kind of migration.
Illegal immigration now revolves around human smuggling. Taking people to other countries without the necessary documents,’’ he said.
The NAPTIP leader said so many young Nigerians often get stranded in the process of using false documents to travel abroad.
It is an ugly development that should be tackled headlong because it is not good for the image of this country that so many people are being repatriated daily,’’ he said.
Morka claimed that Nigeria’s new e-passport was being tampered with by syndicates who give forged visas and passports out at exorbitant charges.
The syndicates carry out their operations at the nation’s land borders and at the airports, according to him.
He described the situation as unhealthy for Nigeria’s immigration policy.
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