The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has launched a formal investigation into the trending video on social media, showing a female traveler destroying a Nigerian Standard Passport at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, the Deputy Controller of Immigration (DCI), Kenneth Udo, has said.
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Udo, the Service Public Relations Officer, in a statement, warned that if the allegations are substantiated, the passport-tearing woman’s actions would be a breach of Section 10(b) of the Immigration Act 2015 (as amended).
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“The individual has been identified and invited for further investigation. If the allegations are substantiated, her actions would have constituted a breach of Section 10(b) of the Immigration Act 2015 (as amended), with corresponding penalties outlined under Section 10(h) of the same Act.
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“The Nigeria Immigration Service remains steadfast in its commitment to upholding the provisions of the Immigration Act in the interest of national security, and to preserving the dignity and integrity of the nation’s legal instruments,”  ,” Udo disclosed in the statement.
