Akeredolu tasks NIS on e-registration of all immigrants in Ondo

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, on Tuesday, called on the Nigerian Immigration Service to ensure that all citizens participate in the ongoing e-registration, to checkmate the activities of illegal immigrants in the country.
Akeredolu made the call in Akure while receiving the State Comptroller, NIS, Ondo State Command, Eunice Aboyade-Yebovi, who paid him a courtesy visit.
The governor, who explained that the ongoing e-registration would be a big task due to the nature of the immigrants in the afforested area of the state, urged the officers not to relent in order to achieve their goals.
He said: “It might be a big task to register them because they might not know the importance of the registration and then give it a different meaning.
“I believe that the time has come, even if you are a Nigerian, you must have either your passport or any means of identification.
“That means as a Nigerian, come with your passport, even when you go out of the country and come back.
“Every immigrant and citizen need to have passport to make the issue of e-registration easier in the country.”
Speaking earlier, the comptroller said that the e-registration of immigrants had already commenced in some states, and solicited for the assistance of the state government.
She requested the assistance of the governor for a befitting state command office and a boat for the command’s base at Igbokoda, in Ilaje Local Government Area for effective service delivery.