The federal government Tuesday wielded a big stick on the sponsors of #EndBadGovernance protests by blocking their bank accounts and also placing some of them on watchlist.
The Comptroller-General of Nigerian Immigration Services (NIS), Kemi Nandap, made this known at Defence Headquarters, Abuja, after a strategic meeting convened by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa.
TheHintsNews reports that the Defence Chief, Service Chiefs, heads of intelligence agencies and heads of paramilitary agencies were in a closed-door meeting aimed at implementing the crackdown order given by President Bola Tinubu.
Nandap added that the sponsors of the protests, most of whom are in the diaspora, would be arrested immediately if they stepped on Nigerian soil.
She stressed that the Service has in response to the protest deployed more officers to borders both land and airports to ensure effective manning of those entry and exit points.
Her words: “We have diaspora sponsors, they are on our watchlist. They are watchlisted, any attempt they make to come into the country, we’ll be notified and they will be picked up and handed to appropriate authority. We have also stepped up surveillance to prevent foreign intervention in the country.’
Also, the Director-General Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, said the agency had uncovered some sponsors of the protests.
Bichi, who was represented at the meeting by the DSS’ spokesman, Peter Afunanya, however, declined giving further information.
He said some bank accounts had already been blocked, adding that some of the persons operating such accounts are staying abroad, adding that they were being monitored.