The Lagos State Police Command has
arrested five Afghan nationals for loitering. According to the the
police, the suspects were arrested around the office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees located on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi.
It was learnt that the suspects, Antiat
Khan, Hakim Jan, Abdul Qadir, Abdul Bassit Naway and Syed Abid Hashimi,
arrived Nigeria by sea on May 10, 2013.
The suspects, who were sighted by
policemen on patrol around midnight, claimed to be hanging around the UN
refugee agency because they had nowhere to go.
The Police Public Relations Officer,
Ngozi Braide, told our correspondent on the telephone that the suspects
had been taken to the Onikan Police Division.
Braide said, “The suspects were seen
loitering around UNHCR at 11.50pm on August 21, 2013. After policemen
accosted them, they said they arrived Nigeria by sea from Afghanistan in
May and the agency had refused to address their plight.
AFGANS KE? AH..
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