The Bauchi State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), said on Thursday that it had so far registered 924 migrants in the ongoing ‘Migrants e-Registration’.
The Public Relations Officer of the Service, Mr Adamu Gabarin, gave the figure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi.
Gabarin stated that 381 migrants out of the figure were those who possessed regular travel documents while the remaining 543 has irregular travel documents.
He said of all those registered, nationals of Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Syria, and Lebanon topped the list.
Gabarin said President Muhammadu Buhari kick-started the exercise on June 12, 2019 in Abuja, during which he issued a six-month grace for migrants to regularise their status in the country.
“The exercise will add value to Nigeria’s security architecture, and the bio-metric data of the migrants will be centrally stored in an easily retrievable system within the security circles,” he said.
The spokesman assured of NIS commitment to implementing the project to the advantage of the nation.
He, therefore, called on migrants in the state, who were yet to register , to do so during the window provided.
NAN
