Buhari Suspends Parradang, Immigration Chief Over Visa Issued To Wanted Terrorist

ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari today (Friday) suspended from office the Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mr. David Parradang, over the visa issued to a wanted terrorist, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Assir, a Lebanese Sunni Muslim extremist and a radical cleric.Al-Assir was arrested by security officials at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport on Saturday, August 15 as he attempted to depart that country for Nigeria via Cairo. Incidentally, the visa was issued on a fake Palestinian passport.

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Paradang’s indefinite suspension was announced in a statement signed by the Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Interior, Mr. Yusuf Isiaka Alhaji, on behalf of the permanent secretary of the ministry.

According to the statement, the Deputy Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mr. Martin Kure Abeshi, will run the agency till further notice.

Abeshi is the most senior officer after Parradang, the statement said.