Department of Immigration apprehends 81 foreign nationals
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services has apprehended 81 foreign nationals during the just ended festive season for violating various immigration permit conditions.
The department’s National Public Relations Officer, Wellington Chiponde, said on Wednesday that the foreigners were arrested during the special festive season operations aimed at tightening the national security of the country through the monitoring and tracking of irregular movements using designated checkpoints and ad-hoc roadblocks.
“Officers were checking and verifying residential status of foreigners, and working on intelligence, and tips from patriots during the operation,” he said.
Of the 81, he said, 38 were arrested in the Northern Region, 20 in the Central Region and 23 in the Southern Region.
Chiponde said the department has already deported eight of the irregular immigrants.
The rest are currently being investigated to decide their fate, he said.
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Kumeneko nko kubwera. Those arrested must pay for their own repatriation costs. Otherwise the people that have been harbouring them must do. Alternatively, open a big vegetable farm supplying to the Govt institutions where they must work for 6 months in order for them to pay for their tickets home.
Talk about illegals, there’s low hanging-fruit to pluck out at Indian establishments. Please conduct regular raids. When they pay you a bribe, send a different team the following week to collect their own bribe, until the employers find it not profitable to keep them
Where are they from?? Am sure non of them are Africans because African can’t be a foreigner in Africa