The Nigerian Immigration Service
(NIS) has said that the 40 Chinese teenage girls earlier arrested on Sunday, at
Emina Crescent, Ikeja, were brought into Nigeria on expatriate quotas of
four Chinese owned companies operating in the country.
Consequently, NIS disclosed that the
four companies including a popular iron melting company located in Ogba area of
Lagos would be sanctioned for abuse of immigration/expatriate quota law of
Nigeria.
A top immigration source disclosed
that the service high command has been given the go ahead to handle the
incident with utmost dispatch. “We have the approval to sanction the four
companies who decided to abuse their quotas. I can assure you that this is not
going to be a child’s play because at the end of the day this organizations
would have to face sanction, including heavy fines,” said a senior NIS officer.
The officer who spoke with our Correspondent in a telephone interview from
Abuja added that the affected companies usually apply for expatriate quotas to
bring in skilled staff for their operation in the country, only for them to
sell such quotas to human traffickers who would use it to import teenage
Chinese girls into Nigeria for prostitution and other dirty jobs.
