The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has warned Nigerian youths who are desperate to leave the country due to the economic downturn, to have a rethink as such move, especially when done illegally, can be dangerous and deadly.
While stressing that economic downturn is a global phenomenon, the NIS said many Nigerian youths have had their organs harvested and perished in the process of leaving the country for sweet promises.
It insisted that illegal migration had become rampant following the national socio-economic downturn, but maintained that the “Japa Syndrome” embraced by the youths in recent times was not the solution.
According to Vanguard, Mrs Kemi Nandap, the Deputy Comptroller General of Immigration in Charge of the Directorate of Migration, made the remarks over the weekend at an event in Abuja.
Nandap revealed that over 1,200 youths di3d in the Mediterranean Sea and deserts last year alone.
“Don’t be deceived, economic downturn is now a global phenomenon. If you have been watching events across the world, you would have noticed protests in some countries. So, it is not about Nigeria alone. It is a global issue. Stay here with us and let us pull our country out of this challenges together.
Don’t follow sweet promises that are not real. People who are telling you to follow them, ask them why they couldn’t carry their own children. Why didn’t they Japa with their cousins and other close relatives. It is dangerous.
They deceived our youths, made them to pass through the deserts and the Mediterranean Sea, some died in the process and their bodies washed off the Sea. Some had their organs harvested by people who took them out the country,” she said.
