By Rosemary Caleb
The Nigerian Immigration Services (NIS) has placed sponsors of the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest on its watchlist.
The Comptroller-General of NIS, Kemi Nandap made this known to journalists in Abuja after a meeting at the instance of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa on Tuesday.
She said sponsors who are in the diaspora would be arrested immediately they arrived in the country.
The Chief of Defence Staff and other heads of intelligence agencies as well as heads of para-military agencies were in a closed-door in respect of the crackdown order given by President Bola Tinubu.
Nandap said, “We have diaspora sponsors, they are on our watchlist. They are watchlisted, any attempt they make to come into the country, we’ll be notified and they will be picked up and handed to appropriate authority.”
The NIS CG said the Service has in response to the protest deployed more officers to the nation’s borders both land and airports to ensure effective manning of entry and exit points.
She further disclosed that the service has also stepped up surveillance to prevent foreign intervention in the country.
Speaking also,the Director-General Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, said the agency had uncovered some sponsors
Bichi who was. represented by Peter Afunanya,the DSS ’spokesman, said some bank accounts had already been blocked.
According to him, some of the persons operating such accounts are staying abroad, and said that they were being monitored.
