The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, has expressed concern over the alarming rate of emigration of Nigerians to foreign countries describing it as a worrisome phenomenon.
The Comptroller of Immigration Service in Enugu State, Joachim
Olumba, made the disclosure on Thursday of a sensitisation campaign on the scourge of Smuggling of Migrants for stakeholders in Enugu State.
He said that the appetite to jet out of the country was usually driven largely by social, economic and security concerns.
He said that Nigerians, especially the youth, were leaving the shores of the country in their droves.
The comptroller said that the desperation had brought unspeakable and unprintable hardships on numerous migrants that many have oftentimes been subjected to various degrees of harrowing experiences that eventually hunt them for the rest of their lives.
