The comptroller general of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs Kemi Nandap said the service had identified those in the diaspora who sponsor the ongoing nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests which is in its seventh day today.
Nandap disclosed this during a combined news conference by the heads of security agencies and service chiefs held yesterday at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja.
She said such persons will be apprehended when entering the country.
“Any attempt they make to come into the country, we will be notified and they will be picked up and handed to the appropriate authority,” she said.
She also said the NIS had stepped up surveillance to prevent foreign intervention in the country.
For his part, the inspector general of police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, also said the police had uncovered some sponsors but declined giving further information on them.
Egbetokun said some accounts of such individuals had been blocked, adding that “many of them reside abroad”.
Also, the director general, Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Yusuf Bichi, said the service was monitoring those concerned.
Bichi who was represented by the spokesman for the DSS, Mr Peter Afunanya, added that the service was also working with the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit to identify more persons behind the funding of the protest.
