The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has raised alarm over alleged plans by some terrorists from neighbouring countries to carry out attacks in some places in the Federal Capital Territory FCT.
According
to a leaked internal memo signed by the Comptroller of Immigration Service
Edirin Okoto and dated December 23, the attack is to happen between December
17, 2021, and December 31, 2021. It was issued on behalf of the Acting
Comptroller General of Immigration, Idris Jere, to the Controllers of
Immigration Service in all the land, air and sea borders of the country and the
Sector Commanders of the border patrol corps.
The memo
read in part……………….
“The
office of the Ag CGI is in receipt of a Security Report (URGENT) from the
Presidency (OSGF). The import is about a looming attack on Nigeria’s Capital
City, Abuja between 17th and 31st December 2021.
The
planned attack is purportedly being led by one DRAHMANE, OULD ALI, aka Mohammed
Ould Sidat, an Algerian national to be assisted by one Zahid Aminon, a Nigerien
national.”
According
to the memo, the foreigners who are planning to enter Nigeria from Mali through
the Niger Republic, have four accomplices who are already in the country.
The memo
directed personnel at the borders to; “intensify alert levels, emplace
necessary countermeasures at all entry/exit points – Air, Land, Sea/Marine,
including, but not limited to, surveillance, rigorous search on persons and
vehicles, transhumance, to effectuate the immediate arrest of these
terrorists/countervail this and any terrorists’ attacks in Abuja.”
See a copy
of the memo below
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