516 illegal immigrants have been arrested by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Kaduna State and had PVCs on them.

Recall that the independent national electoral commission, INEC moved to extend the collection of Permanent Voters Cards, PVC by one week.

According to the state comptroller, Liman Sani Kila, the illegal immigrants were from Niger Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Togo, and Senegal.

Liman Sani Kila, while parading the illegal immigrants at the command’s headquarters said those arrested were undergoing profiling and would be deported.

He explained that in the last year’s mop-up operations, more than 1,000 PVCs from illegal immigrants were arrested within Kaduna Zone.