Immigration officers arrest Cairo-bound girls with fake identity on their passports

Officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, have apprehended

two suspects, Adebayo Kazeem and Babalola Kehinde,  with tampered passports.

According to a statement released by the spokesperson of the Immigration Service, DCI Sunday James, the ladies

were about to board a Cairo-bound Egypt Airline flight on Thursday, January 21 when the Migration Information

and Data Analysis System failed to scan their passports due to an imposed fake identity of the true holder.

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DCI Sunday James, said, “They were duly subjected to interrogation when

caught against their claim of traveling for business as the journey was arranged by a suspect, Muri, whose

number was called many times without response.”

“He was alleged to be behind the processing of the tampered passports  with a man’s picture on the chip when

read by the MIDAS scanner; an offense punishable by the Immigration Act 2015 on passport-related offenses

relating to aiding, identity theft and tampering with a passport.”

The statement titled, ‘NIS operatives arrest two girls with tampered passports,’ further said the Comptroller-

General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede, had ordered a thorough investigation into the

incident

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