By Dare Akogun
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has inaugurated the management board of the Objects of Smuggling of Migrants Trust Fund.
A statement by the by the NIS Public Relations Officer, Amos Okpu said the new development, is aimed at combating the menace of smuggling of migrants by traffickers through proper management of the proceeds of the crime.
Okpu in the statement said the agency derives the power to inaugurate the management board from Section 97 of the Immigration Act, 2015.
According to him “the law provides for the establishment of the Objects of Smuggling of Migrants Trust Fund into which all proceeds of the sale of assets and properties of migrants’ smugglers shall be paid.”
The statement added that the law also provides that the management board of the trust fund shall comprise representatives from the NIS, ministries of interior, health, finance, and women affairs and social development.
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