Nigerian Immigration Service has dismissed David Ukpo underage Claim.
Recall that news recently broke out after Nigerian serving Senator Ike Ekweremadu and wife were arrested in United Kingdom, for alleged trafficking of Minor and organ harvesting.
Ike Ekweremadu and his wife who is currently in UK police custody are facing charge of trafficking of Minor, organ harvesting and money laundering.
The news generate controversy after the victims claim he is 15 years old, but traveling passport show he is 21 years old.
Many elite Nigerians, such as Senator Dino Melaye, Ebonyi State government under Governor Umahi, Dickson and many others has declared stand with the senator.
Meanwhile, reacting to the controversy, the Comptroller General of the NIS, Mr Idris Jere, has cleared the age controversy.
Mr Jere made the clearatiion at a press conference on Sunday.
He said Nwamini is indeed 21 according to his record in the possession of the NIS, discarding claims that the Service didn’t thoroughly vet the documents provided by the applicant.
Jere said, “The fact of the matter concerning the case above, therefore, are that Mr David Ukpo Nwamini applied and paid for the e-passport using the NIS portal after which he approached the passport office in Gwagwalada, FCT Abuja, on November 2, 2021 for his interview.
“To support his application, Mr Nwamini presented all necessary documents required including his birth certificate issued by the National Population Commission, showing October 12, 2000 as his date of birth; his National Identification Number, issued by NIMC corroborating the date of birth; a Certificate of Origin issued by Ebonyi State Government Liaison office in Abuja, and a guarantor’s form duly signed.“NIS relies on documentation supplied by other agencies and we are not under any obligation to go to those agencies to verify those documents. What we do is that we look at the documents and applicants physically. Once that is done, we go ahead to process.”
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