Nigerian Govt Places #EndBadGovernance ‘Sponsors’ On Watchlist, Blocks Accounts

Nigeria’s federal government, through the Nigerian Immigration Services (NIS), has placed sponsors of the ongoing nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests on its watchlist.

NIS Comptroller-General Kemi Nandap, who President Bola Tinubu appointed, disclosed this on Tuesday at Defense Headquarters in Abuja, stating that these “sponsors” based in the diaspora would be arrested if and when they entered Nigerian soil.

We have diaspora sponsors. They are on our watchlist. They are watchlisted, and we’ll be notified of any attempt they make to come into the country. They will be picked up and handed to the appropriate authority, said Nandad while speaking with journalists after the meeting.

The Immigration boss said the Service has, in response to the protest, deployed more officers to borders, both land and airports, to ensure effective manning of those entry and exit points.

Furthermore, the NIS has intensified its surveillance efforts to prevent foreign intervention in the country, according to Nandap.

On his part, the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, said the agency had uncovered some sponsors but declined to give further information, according to the Daily Trust.

The secret police head, represented at the meeting by the DSS’ spokesman, Peter Afunanya, said some bank accounts had already been blocked.

Afunanya also revealed that some of the individuals operating these accounts are currently residing abroad, but they are under close surveillance.

Meanwhile, West Africa Weekly had earlier reported how the UBA Group froze the local bank account of the Take It Back movement for organising peaceful protests.

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