I travelled to Nigeria to marry,eat and live a standard not a poverty life – Illegal immigrant

For 21-year-old Musa Isa, who is from the Niger Republic, his major
mission to Kwara State, Nigeria was to work and get money to feed
himself and later marry.
Isa was one of the 120 illegal immigrants arrested and paraded by the
Nigeria Immigration Service, Kwara State Command, on Thursday for not
having valid documents.
He said he had stayed in Kwara State for about 10 years without
documents and without arrest until Wednesday when he was nabbed by
immigration officials.
Isa also said he had been doing menial job, offloading cement in
Ilorin for about 10 years.
"The immigration men caught me and brought me here. They caught me
because I am from Niger. I do not have my travel documents. I have
been here for about 10 years. I have all my people with me.
"I offload cement bags as a labourer. I stay at Lajorin, Muritala. I
want to come back to Nigeria. I will prepare my paper. I love Kwara
State because I see food to eat, but in my place we do not have much
food to eat. I am also looking for money to marry."
Another illegal Immigrant, Mumuni Hassan, said he was from the Niger
Republic but came to Offa, Kwara State, about two weeks ago to work as
a cobbler. He also said that he found Offa more lucrative for his work
than his country.
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Hassan said, "I came here about two weeks ago. I will come back to
Nigeria. I will prepare my documents."
The Public Relations Officer, NIS, Kwara State Command, Mr. Adesola
Adeyemi, said the 120 illegal immigrants were arrested during the
command's periodic mop-up exercise.
He stated that 97 of the immigrants were from the Niger Republic while
23 were from the Republic of Benin. He said officials of the command
also intercepted a truck with registration number, KATSINA XA 621 KAT,
that was loaded with 46 passengers in Ilorin on the suspicion that the
passengers were from the Niger Republic.
According to him, after investigation, it was confirmed that the
travellers were from the Niger Republic.
He said it was not established that the immigrants were to be involved
in electoral malpractices.
"We could not find anything on them that showed that they came for
election, but we should move to make sure that we nip any security
threat in the bud."
Adeyemi said the illegal immigrants were ECOWAS citizens, but were to
be repatriated to their countries because they did not have travel
documents.
He advised them to go through the laid down procedure and get their
documents if they genuinely wanted to return and work in Nigeria.
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